Google Will Target Ads Using Email Addresses

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Looks like Google needs more money at our expense. If you think ads are bad now, just wait.

Online advertising giant Google will soon let marketers target ads to specific people using their email addresses when they use its search engine, Gmail or YouTube video platform.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-will-target-ads-using-email-addresses-1443468445

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Like many internet giants, as a matter of policy, Google presumes ownership of anything and everything they touch. There’s a reason their privacy options are so convoluted and changed so often.

All your data are belong to us.

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If you are logged into Google when you use it’s search, you give them the ability to track you based on your login. That is then used in predictive searching to improve your “search experience” by providing you information based on your past searches. In a way this is what Siri and Cortana also do.

Even if you aren’t logged in you will find that you are tracked by your IP and your cookies which are nearly as good. If nothing else, your IP tells them your general area.

The degree to which Google may share this information with advertisers changes with time. The theory is that someone who routinely searches for fishing related information would be more interested in ads for fishing reels than ads for tennis rackets.

None of this should come as a real surprise to anyone here, but it’s amazing how oblivious many people are to this. And I doubt that most care as long as they see only the benefits they get from it.

Interweb privacy doesn’t exist anymore.

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With Google (and others), whatever they offer you for free isn’t the product; YOU are the product. The “free” stuff is merely the bait.

One of the ways I shield myself from Google is with searches. I search using startpage.com as my search engine. Startpage strips out all of my identifying info and then feeds my search request to Google. In this way, I get all of the benefits with none of the privacy concerns.

And even if I do a straight-up Google search, I don’t have to log into Google in order to do the search. That will keep my email address out of the picture.

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With Google (and others), whatever they offer you for free isn’t the product; YOU are the product. The “free” stuff is merely the bait.

One of the ways I shield myself from Google is with searches. I search using startpage.com as my search engine. Startpage strips out all of my identifying info and then feeds my search request to Google. In this way, I get all of the benefits with none of the privacy concerns.

And even if I do a straight-up Google search, I don’t have to log into Google in order to do the search. That will keep my email address out of the picture.

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With Google (and others), whatever they offer you for free isn’t the product; YOU are the product. The “free” stuff is merely the bait.

One of the ways I shield myself from Google is with searches. I search using startpage.com as my search engine. Startpage strips out all of my identifying info and then feeds my search request to Google. In this way, I get all of the benefits with none of the privacy concerns.

And even if I do a straight-up Google search, I don’t have to log into Google in order to do the search. That will keep my email address out of the picture.

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Enhanced?

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Enhanced?

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:rolleyes:

See the enhanced with google on the right of the search bar? The images come up so small I could not even tell I had the wrong one. I have set the folder I upload from to show extra large icon, hopefully I will not repeat my mistake.

:cheers:

Just because you don't know where you are going doesn't mean any road will get you there.

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oops wrong image
42674-Untitled

:rolleyes:

See the enhanced with google on the right of the search bar? The images come up so small I could not even tell I had the wrong one. I have set the folder I upload from to show extra large icon, hopefully I will not repeat my mistake.

:cheers:

“Enhanced” simply gives you information about how Startpage maintains your privacy. Hold your cursor over it, and a window will appear. Click the “Here’s” more link at the bottom of the window to get still more information.

Dr. Katherine Albrecht is one of the executives at Startpage. She is a big-time privacy advocate. Her association with them led me to start using Startpage for my searches.

They also offer Startmail, a super-private email service. I would go with them, except that they don’t at this time offer domain hosting.

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I like this idea of startpage.com, but I did a comparison between it and Google on same basic searches. The results are different.

EDIT: I installed it and have removed it already. It is very slow and not as adept as Google, although I still like the concept.

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I like this idea of startpage.com, but I did a comparison between it and Google on same basic searches. The results are different.

Of course the results are different but they might just be in a different order. Google searches are weighted by your previous search history and cookie content, etc., see #3

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Try DuckDuckGo as a search engine rather than Google.
https://duckduckgo.com/about

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Well, sure, but if startpage is just stripping out identifiers, then I would expect to see the same results (other than the ad-supported answer at the top). Or maybe it’s the identifiers being taken out that causes the difference.

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Well, sure, but if startpage is just stripping out identifiers, then I would expect to see the same results (other than the ad-supported answer at the top). Or maybe it’s the identifiers being taken out that causes the difference.

Yup that would be my guess, Google offering search results depending on search history.

:cheers:

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I’m glad to have something that tries to restore at least a little privacy to my life. Google and Startpage are like the opposite extremes — Google tries to get as much of your private info as they can; Startpage tries to protect as much of my privacy as they can.

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Click on the image in the message and it will expand. Its still hard to read but it does say enhanced by Google.

Jerry

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