Your demogaphic profile on Google

Apparently, you can see this on Google. http://www.google.com/ads/preferences

They think I am male, age 25 to 34. Ok, that is correct. Interests include (but not limited to) Custom and Performance Vehicles, Demographics (?), and Birds.

Apparently googling “your demographic profile on Google” makes one of your interests “Demographics.” Google knows all.

Female Based on the websites you’ve visited Bicycles & Accessories, and 14 more From your previous activity on Google

lolz

Sex: Male

Age: 55-64

Language: English

Interests: Air Travel, Business Finance, Business News, Crime & Justice, Financial Markets, Finance, Investing, Legislative Branch, Oil & Gas, Politics, and Wyoming

Apparently I need to act my age more…

Sex: Male

Age: 18-24

Language: English & Spanish

Interests: Banking

The interest in banking makes sense, because this is my work computer, but I am a little concerned about the 18-24, because this is my work computer.

Doing this on my phone is probably going to be more accurate…

Sex: Male

Age: 35-44

Language: English

Interests: Boobs, women touching boobs

Male

25-34

English

Interests: Business & Industrial, ISPs, + 38 others. ooh ISPs.

Since when are the gays interested in the boobs?

^ Flame on, Inky.

That’s cool. Some odd things came up for me: water sports, bicycles, east asian music, vehicle insurance (i don’t own a car anymore)

I dated a girl once that Google thought was a 25-34 male and she was so chill. From that moment on I figured I should pay attention to what Google thought of potential suitors.

Sex: Male

Age: 25-34

Interests: Business Finance, Financial Markets, Investing, Commodities and Futures Trading, Men’s Clothing, Personal Loans (Lending Club anyone?), Statistics, Travel

I’m curious if it different for my personal computer.

Shouldn’t be different on any device - google collects all this data as long as you’re logged in to your google account while using a browser.

“Access to this website is restricted by Higgmond’s employer’s internet access policy.”

Thanks ohai.

^ Correct, its account based. Male 25-34. Air Travel, Autos, Finance, Financial Markets, Investing, Oil and Gas, Politics, Real Estate, Vehicle Maintenance.

I think that just means you are a latent homosexual.

Race: Black

Sex: Male

Age:18-24

Language: Jivebonics

Interests: Drinking, smoking weed, all types of ill sht.

You don’t need to be logged in:

https://www.google.com/settings/ads

Gender N/A Unknown Edit Based on the websites you’ve visited Age N/A Unknown Edit Based on the websites you’ve visited Languages N/A None Edit Based on the websites you’ve visited Interests N/A Unknown Edit Based on the websites you’ve visited

Thank you Python script skills!

Long story short, I hate how much data Google collects, so I filter all URLs served up by Google search through a Python script that strips out all the tracking crud and takes me straight to the actual link.

For example, it converts

http://news.google.com/news/url?sr=1&ct2=us%2F0_0_s_0_1_a&sa=t&usg=AFQjCNGEid9hm408uopeY7LjwIpjFvzX2Q&cid=52778710842156&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2015%2F01%2F13%2Fliving%2Fmuslims-respond-hebdo%2F&ei=3H61VLjkEKTImAL59IDIBQ&rt=HOMEPAGE&vm=STANDARD&bvm=section&did=-3100061282570647771&ssid=h

to http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/13/living/muslims-respond-hebdo/

I have American Football, Anime and Boxing among my interests! What are they smoking?

It’s accurate in my case.