Tell me if this sounds familiar:
You check out a pair of shoes online and suddenly they’re haunting every web page you sign in to.
Or worse, you have a conversation near your cellphone about something, and their adverts are suddenly cropping up in sidebars everywhere.
(As an aside, if you haven’t yet changed your WhatsApp profile picture privacy settings, check this out.)
Most of us are well aware that Google keeps tabs on us, the places we go, the purchases we make, and the sites we visit.
What you might not know is that you can take control of what Google collects about you and how long they keep it.
Here’s WIRED,
It’s worth emphasizing first that we’re really dealing with two topics: The amount of data Google collects on you, which is a lot, and what Google then does with it. Google would say its data collection policies improve its services—helping you find a restaurant similar ones you’ve liked previously, say—whereas users might disagree.
If you want to take control of your data, you need to do the following:
Moving on to your devices, audio, YouTube and Gmail:
Finally, that annoying targeted advertising.
Sign into your Google account. At the top is your age and gender, followed by a whole host of topics that Google thinks you’re interested in—click on any of these entries and choose Turn off to strike it from the record.
Done.
And while this won’t solve all of your internet problems, it goes a long way towards easing the paranoia.
[source:wired]
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