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Re:Google Search Is Dying by foxfluff on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:56PM (#30351007)
It's always fun checking Google's ad settings and seeing what they think I'm into.

Apparently now I'm into baseball, flowers, boating, celebrities, country music, credit cards, geology, event ticket sales, fishing, and windows OS. Among a couple hundred other things. It even gets some rather basic facts (marital status, company size, education) wrong. I seriously wonder how they generate this profile?

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by hnburnsy on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @02:32PM (#30351468)
Check your Google ad settings here...

https://adssettings.google.com/

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by chillfox on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @08:02PM (#30355147)
Well... It actually got some categories right, but I don't really feel that's very impressive considering that it put me in every category by the looks of it.
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Re:Google Search Is Dying by mcv on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @05:18PM (#30353627)
There's not a lot there for me. Just some generic whether I want to see alcohol and gambling ads on youtube.
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Re:Google Search Is Dying by arvinsim on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @02:23AM (#30357230)
With these many categories, it is bound to match me somewhat.
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Re:Google Search Is Dying by tomrod on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @02:24PM (#30351360)
> I seriously wonder how they generate this profile

Poorly!

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