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Google Thinks I’m a Middle-Aged Man. What About You?
- victork2 15y agoThat's a pretty neat feature. I am a 25 years old male and my demographic is supposed to be: Male, 35-44 - Center Of Interests Computers & Electronics - Software - Freeware & Shareware Computers & Electronics - Software - Software Utilities According to Google I am a cheap nerd older than I really am. Damn... PS: Where's the porn ? (Kidding, or am I...)
- thyrsus 15y agoYahoo asked me my marital status eons ago, and I told them I'm married. It's still in my profile. Yet for most of a decade, they couldn't find anything better than dating site ads to show me. I just checked again, and things seem to be better, though pretty random: groceries, criminal record lookup, Scotttrade. The groceries might have been interesting if that chain wasn't the eighth closest one to my house.
- nextparadigms 15y agoBy the way, you can opt-out from being tracked by Google's ads there from what I can see. Why do people say you can't opt out with the new privacy policy?
- jgw 15y agoKind of wish there was a flag in the ID string that basically says, "This user is unlikely to click on your ad, ever. Save your advertising dollars". I have "responded" to one GMail ad, ever. It was for tickets for a Pixies show, and I had not known they were touring. But I didn't click on it - I went to ticketmaster.ca and bought some seats for some friends and me. The ad wasn't placed by them, as far as I could tell, but they got the sale on someone else's ad budget. Do many HN folks click on ads?
- jgw 15y ago[EDIT] Cont'd: Also, do folks around here actually "+1" and "Like" stuff on the web? It seems to me like the people who actually click on ads are not likely to be the kinds of people that advertisers are actually trying to reach.
- benwr 15y agoSssshhhh - if more people thought this, Google would start charging for products