So what will make an ad company attractive to the advertisers? So advertisement companies started showing ads in a patterned manner rather than showing irrelevant ads. This was possible only by tracking users and creating a profile on them. So gradually we became the product of these companies even without our approval. One may expect Facebook to have a profile on you, based on your actions within Facebook, but Facebook goes one step above our expectation.
It tracks you across the web, on various other websites through the social plugins the like and share button you see in almost every website. Google tracks you easily by the huge google ecosystem deeply embedded in our life. Google knows what you are thinking chrome, google assistant, google search , where you are headed to Maps , even the mood you are in android. Now we know that companies do track you, but how much do they know?
Google keeps all your calendar activities, email, notes, files in drive and photos stored, even after you have deleted them. So practically, Google knows everything that needs to be known about your digital life. Google has created an advertisement profile for you based on the information it has collected, click here to see your ad profile.
To download all your information gathered by Google, click here. Data package from drive and photos are huge in size, because of the files you have uploaded to them. I have deleted my Facebook account, so I could not see up to what extent Facebook was successful in tracking me across the web.
But many articles such as this are available on the web regarding how much Facebook invades your privacy. To download the data collected by Facebook, click here. You will be surprised at how much it knows about you. You do have the option to ask Google to stop tracking your web and other activities. Next step is to stop using the Google search engine. I know you feel it is next to impossible, but it has been 6 months since I have stopped using Google search and I do not miss google, 9 out of 10 times.
So how am I still living in this world? Google only sees Startpage searching for you. So you get what you want without sacrificing your privacy.
Next backbone of Google in data collection is Chrome, which is the most popular browser in both android and windows. Google Chrome is based on the open source project Chromium.
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Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile. Log out. US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Aaron Holmes. By clicking a link from Google's account settings page, users can find out what the tech giant thinks it knows about them based on search history and browsing data from Google-owned sites like YouTube.
Google guesses users' age, gender, marital status, income bracket, and personal interests. Using the tool shows that many of Google's predictions can be off-base, but the majority of them are scarily accurate.
It's also possible to stop Google from tracking your information or predicting your profile going forward. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. First, navigate to your Google account homepage by clicking the widget in the top right corner of any Google site. The profile Google has predicted based on your history is found under "Ad personalization.
You'll be greeted with a message describing ad personalization. If you don't want Google to track any personal information for ad purposes, you can switch ad personalization to "OFF" on this screen. When you scroll down, you'll see a list of attributes that Google has predicted about you, including your age, gender, and interests. Clicking on any of the items in the list will pull up a menu that allows you to update the information to correct Google's assumption.
For most of the settings, you can also "Turn off" the tracking, which will stop Google from using its predictions to serve you ads in that category. Some of Google's predictions are scarily accurate. Google may even make predictions about your living situation. Some of the interests Google predicts are oddly specific.
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