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The type of personalized ads you describe only trigger if the user has clicked on the "allow personalized ads" button. If they did not only non-personalized th

by lotu 7y ago

The type of personalized ads you describe only trigger if the user has clicked on the "allow personalized ads" button. If they did not only non-personalized things happen this is things what the website is about and course location (city or zipcode) (the latter is not personalized information as they lawyers explained to me because "it can't identify a person").

danarmak 7y ago
"Allow personalized ads" is on by default, which is iffy under the GDPR. Especially considering that, when it's enabled, they match you to your Google account even if your current browser isn't signed in to the Google account.
- lotu 7y ago
  No it is not! Google requires each individual website to gather consent affirmative for personalized ads before Google will provide personalized ads. There was big issue over if Google would effectively force everyone to use it's solution as it would be the only way Google could be 100% sure the publisher isn't cheating. In the end Google allowed publishers to use whatever method they want.
  - danarmak 7y ago
    I meant that the "Allow personalized ads" in a Google account is on by default.
    - drusepth 7y ago
      It may have been at one point, but I created a new Google account the other day and haven't touched this box, and it's off.
      - danarmak 7y ago
        That must be recent. Good to know!
  - TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago
    But in practice, doesn't “affirmative consent” means clicking the big yellow “OK” button below a paragraph of vague weasel words instead of the little white “Configure privacy options” link, or in the case of website operators like Oath, not going three pages deep?
    - seanmcdirmid 7y ago
      From parent: > In the end Google allowed publishers to use whatever method they want.
Aaargh20318 7y ago
That may be true, but allowing personalised ads is something completely different from 'share my personal information with thousands of unnamed third parties', which is what this is about.

by lotu 7y ago

danarmak 7y ago

"Allow personalized ads" is on by default, which is iffy under the GDPR. Especially considering that, when it's enabled, they match you to your Google account even if your current browser isn't signed in to the Google account.

lotu 7y ago
No it is not! Google requires each individual website to gather consent affirmative for personalized ads before Google will provide personalized ads. There was big issue over if Google would effectively force everyone to use it's solution as it would be the only way Google could be 100% sure the publisher isn't cheating. In the end Google allowed publishers to use whatever method they want.
- danarmak 7y ago
  I meant that the "Allow personalized ads" in a Google account is on by default.
  - drusepth 7y ago
    It may have been at one point, but I created a new Google account the other day and haven't touched this box, and it's off.
    - danarmak 7y ago
      That must be recent. Good to know!
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y ago
  But in practice, doesn't “affirmative consent” means clicking the big yellow “OK” button below a paragraph of vague weasel words instead of the little white “Configure privacy options” link, or in the case of website operators like Oath, not going three pages deep?
  - seanmcdirmid 7y ago
    From parent: > In the end Google allowed publishers to use whatever method they want.

Aaargh20318 7y ago

That may be true, but allowing personalised ads is something completely different from 'share my personal information with thousands of unnamed third parties', which is what this is about.