Liz CA Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I just opened an email from SIL where she mentions someone's miscarriage and on the sidebar google "suggest" I click on "Baby", "Conception", "Jesus" and "Bible". The last two keywords must have come from different emails! ???? :glare: Creepy. I am having that "big brother's watching" paranoia now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Yes, I've noticed that too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibbygirl Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I had something like that happen to me while reading an email in my yahoo, but through Google chrome. I don't like it either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 There are instructions on this page for opting out of personalised ads. http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I don't know if you can still do it, but before 3/1 you could go to privacy settings, and delete your history and set it so it wouldn't save any history. that was to keep google from doing this garbage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueridge Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I've been noticing this, too. I've gotten emails from people that I think the ads are geared toward the things those people have been googling. Now I guess this could be helpful to someone who needed to spy on somebody. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I've been noticing this, too. I've gotten emails from people that I think the ads are geared toward the things those people have been googling. Now I guess this could be helpful to someone who needed to spy on somebody. :) Google does not sell your information to third parties or send out spam (gmail actually has the best spam filter around). Laws and privacy policy aside, why would they? Advertising is their business, and sharing identifying information would undermine it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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