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I really wish this actually showed my activity. This is a partially honest, very limited version of my real google account activity. I would love to data mine

I really wish this actually showed my activity. This is a partially honest, very limited version of my real google account activity. I would love to data mine what Google has on me. I'm sure I'll get a copy someday. Almost everything on the internet eventually is released via acquisitions, subpoenas, hackers, etc...

tantalor 10y ago
https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
- gruez 10y ago
  that doesn't provide everything though. at the very least, it doesn't have all the advertising dossier they have on me.
  - agumonkey 10y ago
    You mean deeper analytics they infer from your behaviour (queries, time, cursor...) and the kind of ads they end up showing ?
    - gruez 10y ago
      Yes
      - allenlavoie 10y ago
        Like https://www.google.com/settings/ads https://www.google.com/settings/ads ?
        mattnumbe 10y ago
        According to this, google doesn't know if Im male or female. It must not be showing what they really know about me.
        deleted 10y ago
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        csmattryder 10y ago
        Never attribute to malice, what can be easily explained by a lack of technological progress. Maybe they've just not got enough data on you?
        djhn 10y ago
        And ML can be a bit of a black box like that. Google knows what kind of ads to likely work, but that doesn't mean they have an explicit binary judgement or cluster figured out on any one of the dimensions.
        mattnumbe 10y ago
        That's a real good point. It doesn't really matter if I'm male or female as long a they know what to sell me.
  - honkhonkpants 10y ago
    Perhaps that is because they are unable to join your advertising profile with your account, under various terms of services and agreements. "We will not combine DoubleClick cookie information with personally identifiable information unless we have your opt-in consent." So you can't really expect them to be able to cough up the contents of profile 0x3f47d0387acb94857 when asked for the history of your account, if they are forbidden from joining the two domains together.
    - tombrossman 10y ago
      > Perhaps that is because they are unable to join your advertising profile with your account, under various terms of services and agreements. You should read this and reconsider. From the article: "The change is enabled by default for new Google accounts. Existing users were prompted to opt-in to the change this summer." https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-droppe...
      - Godel_unicode 10y ago
        So? "Users were prompted to opt-in" != "Everyone chose to opt-in".
        thecatspaw 10y ago
        in my past experience google is a master in disguising these opt-in prompts as mandatory, with a tiny tiny X somewhere or a "skip" button only showing up when unticking the correct checkboxes
- akerro 10y ago
  Doesn't include cookie tracking and probably thousands or more tracking categories.
  - deleted 10y ago
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tantalor 10y ago

https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

gruez 10y ago
that doesn't provide everything though. at the very least, it doesn't have all the advertising dossier they have on me.
- agumonkey 10y ago
  You mean deeper analytics they infer from your behaviour (queries, time, cursor...) and the kind of ads they end up showing ?
  - gruez 10y ago
    Yes
    - allenlavoie 10y ago
      Like https://www.google.com/settings/ads https://www.google.com/settings/ads ?
      - mattnumbe 10y ago
        According to this, google doesn't know if Im male or female. It must not be showing what they really know about me.
        deleted 10y ago
        [deleted]
        csmattryder 10y ago
        Never attribute to malice, what can be easily explained by a lack of technological progress. Maybe they've just not got enough data on you?
        djhn 10y ago
        And ML can be a bit of a black box like that. Google knows what kind of ads to likely work, but that doesn't mean they have an explicit binary judgement or cluster figured out on any one of the dimensions.
        mattnumbe 10y ago
        That's a real good point. It doesn't really matter if I'm male or female as long a they know what to sell me.
- honkhonkpants 10y ago
  Perhaps that is because they are unable to join your advertising profile with your account, under various terms of services and agreements. "We will not combine DoubleClick cookie information with personally identifiable information unless we have your opt-in consent." So you can't really expect them to be able to cough up the contents of profile 0x3f47d0387acb94857 when asked for the history of your account, if they are forbidden from joining the two domains together.
  - tombrossman 10y ago
    > Perhaps that is because they are unable to join your advertising profile with your account, under various terms of services and agreements. You should read this and reconsider. From the article: "The change is enabled by default for new Google accounts. Existing users were prompted to opt-in to the change this summer." https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-droppe...
    - Godel_unicode 10y ago
      So? "Users were prompted to opt-in" != "Everyone chose to opt-in".
      - thecatspaw 10y ago
        in my past experience google is a master in disguising these opt-in prompts as mandatory, with a tiny tiny X somewhere or a "skip" button only showing up when unticking the correct checkboxes
akerro 10y ago
Doesn't include cookie tracking and probably thousands or more tracking categories.
- deleted 10y ago
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