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posted 06 September 2021 01:43 PM
My brother's family came over for dinner last night. His kids showed me how to see what Google knows about me and how to change it. It's kind of fun - nothing sinister going on - but I do wonder where they got some of the information.

Easy enough:

1. Sign in to your Google account. If you don't think you have a Google account you'll be surprised when you set up a password for it and see your profile.

2. Go to: (seems to work in any browser)

www.adsettings.google.com/authenticated

There you can see everything Google thinks it knows about you, mostly based on internet searches you've performed and advertisements you've clicked. In my case a few really odd things came up, and I was able to delete them.

Did you find anything interesting?

[edit]: Looks like that doesn't always work. Another way to do it is to go to a Google search page, sign in and then Google adsettings from the search bar within the Google page.


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posted 06 September 2021 02:22 PMHide Post
Google thinks I’m over 45 years old? Where the hell would they get that?
 
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