{"id":102208,"date":"2018-06-29T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=102208"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:21:52","slug":"you-can-now-control-what-google-knows-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/you-can-now-control-what-google-knows-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"You can now control what Google knows about you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google knows a lot about you. So much, in fact, that it can show you personalized ads. Starting now, you can <\/span>carefully control what Google shows you in ads <\/b>by\u00a0<\/b>removing categories that it has \u201cassigned\u201d you. <\/span><\/p>\n

This Google option, which can be found at <\/span>this link<\/span><\/a>, lets you see the profile that the company has on you, based on your online behavior and any data that you\u2019ve given out: age, sex,\u00a0and tastes. Think a category doesn\u2019t represent you? (According to Google, I\u2019m a man.) Or simply don\u2019t want to be shown ads from certain categories? <\/span>Just click on that category and then \u201cDisable.\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

In addition to this option, Google now gives you more info about why you see certain ads for its products, such as YouTube. If you click on<\/span> \u201cWhy am I seeing this ad\u201d <\/b>within an ad, it will explain in detail why it\u2019s being shown to you (because of your tastes, where you live, etc.). <\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, these new options don\u2019t mean that Google will stop having info about you, but at least now <\/span>you can call the shots by controlling the profile Google keeps on you. <\/b><\/p>\n

This option reminds us of <\/span>Facebook<\/b>, which a while back included a section with all the info it was storing on you. In the article <\/span>\u201cHow to find out what Facebook knows about you,<\/span><\/a>\u201d we explain this in detail. <\/span><\/p>\n

What do you think about Google storing so much info on us?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Google knows a lot about you. So much, in fact, that it can show you personalized ads. Starting now, you can carefully control what Google shows you in ads by\u00a0removing categories that it has \u201cassigned\u201d you. This Google option, which can be found at this link, lets you see the profile that the company has … Continue reading “You can now control what Google knows about you”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2041,"featured_media":102910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2518,2441],"tags":[2340,1059,1068,1027,1044],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-102208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-security","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327781,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102208\/revisions\/327781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102208"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=102208"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=102208"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=102208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}