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[tricksterdude]

Just discovered that any time you're signed into your Gmail account and do a search through Google then the bastards store it so they can target you with ads. I've just deleted a few years worth of searches and switched the setting off.

Google.com/history

Sign in and sort it......you don't want the wife finding all your porn searches LOL.

Total fucking abuse of their position imo.

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[keasy]

It's well known using Gmail  is correlative, it's not free for nothing.....see what I did there ?

[Wooster]

I'd have thought it was obvious that if you left your browser logged into your account (or used iGoogle or Google Desktop) they'd be able to put 2 and 2 together.  

[tricksterdude]

I'd have thought it was obvious that if you left your browser logged into your account (or used iGoogle or Google Desktop) they'd be able to put 2 and 2 together.  

Add android phone to that list, fuckers.

[Wooster]

If you log in and then back out, does Google still have a record of which user was on which IP and use that info though? (I can't find an answer)

Couple of other things that spring to mind is Virgins Advanced Search service (that you had/have to opt out of). If you mistyped a URL, Virgins DNS servers would step in and offer you some 'suggestions'.
That was a bit too suss for me.

And there was the AOL fiasco a few years ago where the ISP kept a record of all their account holders searches conducted through their own internet search service...that were subsequently leaked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak

I suppose the only way to make it difficult for them is to use a VPN Proxy service.  

[Wooster]

That Google/History link is top drawer, I hadn't seen that before. 

[Thermalsig]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgjqZ3IVO18&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Sent by  Droid X while sniping squirrels from my roof.

[keasy]

 

[Wooster]

 

Wonder who sponsored that..

[BarrieB]

Dunno but I may try a Microsoft product.

[corroded]

247 Google Searches in one day... (my history goes back to 2007)

I do wonder what I'd do without them sometimes.

[Wooster]

“You run the racetrack, you own the racetrack. And for a long time you had no horses. Now, you have horses, and you have control over where the horses are placed.”
 “And your horses seem to be winning.”
Senator Blumenthal last month on Googles shopping results.

[BarrieB]

Just discovered that any time you're signed into your Gmail account and do a search through Google then the bastards store it so they can target you with ads.

I've always signed into gmail with Chrome but used Firefox to search.

I've never noticed any adverts that relate to anything that I've searched for but maybe I've got tunnel vision.