I sent and received a few emails about math software as I was trying to figure out how I could use software to make math easy to learn. I just set down at my computer an hour ago and went to youtube real quick, something I do often before I get to work. I got a bunch of ads about math software. I don’t normally get those kinds of ads, and I only looked for math software on youtube last week and I only spent like 15 minutes of video watching and watched different videos since then. I was just wondering if any one knows if that is something google does?
Does google read my gmail to show me ads on youtube?
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Yup, that is something google does,
From ChatGPT
here is crazier one,
Happened to me 2 weeks ago,
Tried to get a dental appointment over WhatsApp (Owned by FB), then 4 days later got an SMS, with a discount code for dental services, completely unrelated companies of course, not even in my city
From ChatGPT
here is crazier one,
Happened to me 2 weeks ago,
Tried to get a dental appointment over WhatsApp (Owned by FB), then 4 days later got an SMS, with a discount code for dental services, completely unrelated companies of course, not even in my city
Google has a profile for you for all the accounts you use. If you're signed into any of them, you're providing "advertising telemetry" for all of them.
Well, since Google is letting the EU users opt out of some of the data sharing up to a certain level it leads me to believe the non-EU users do not get as much of a choice.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/14202892?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform=Android
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/12/24036312/google-digital-markets-act-services-user-data-opt-out
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en-US
To be clear, when I said all the accounts, I meant all Google accounts, such as Gmail, YouTube, Google [Web] Search, the Google Play Store, etc.
You can of course also use your Google credential to log in via federation on other services, and you would have to read the various site agreements to know what info Google gets from those sites beyond the "telemetry" that you log in there and when and for how long. There is also the data they can gather if you use their DNS services.
I was not suggesting, and do not suggest, that Google has any back door means to gather info from sites they're not affiliated with or that you don't use a Google account to access.
uBlock Origin's use does not infer that 'The Google' is NOT still collecting information about your searches and/or visits to their web content. You simply don't get to see what they already know about you. Also, any android is a surveillance and collection device (read the fine, fine print), forget about the 3rd party apps! And lastly, remember Firefox is paid for by 'The Google'...
BTW, it dawns on me now, days later, that Google also offers a service for site telemetry that sites frequently opt into. (Google Analytics.) They also offer a means to show ads on a site for monetization. (Google AdWords.) Because of how pervasive this makes them, I feel like it really is pretty difficult to completely avoid them gathering any info about your IP address and/or browser. Turning off 3rd party cookies can be the first step in reducing some of the tracking and I guess this is why so many people (that are fans of @Steve) use the various plugins and other tools to hopefully reduce and/or limit what gets collected.
