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Re:Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail by AmazingWill on Sunday February 12, 2012 @07:28AM (#3581645)
When I consider targeted advertising and the sheer amount of data that I've pumped into Google services over the years it's scary to see how accurate of a picture advertisers and co have of me.
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Re:Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail by jenhsun on Sunday February 12, 2012 @07:56AM (#3581696)
I suggest you can opt out Google's ads first. Hope these work.

Save your opt-out preference permanently http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/intl/en/plugin/

Ads Preferences Manager http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/?hl=en

Google Advertising and Privacy http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/

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Re:Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail by celebration on Sunday February 12, 2012 @10:53AM (#3582082)
Why does this scare you though? I am curious as to why people are so afraid of advertisers seeing their interests. Personally, I don't care if I get served targeted ads, is that really going to harm me?
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Re:Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail by toonse on Sunday February 12, 2012 @01:01PM (#3582436)
I use google extensively, gmail for years, google docs, etc. I must have clicked the right things in the privacy checkboxes since when I go to that "what does google think of you" page, it just says it "does not have enough data".
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