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jortstoday at 12:13 AM2 repliesview on HN

It was probably a decade ago and I recall using something within Google that would tell you about who they thought you were. It profiled me as a middle eastern middle aged man or something like that which was… way off.


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sgctoday at 12:20 AM

If I were extremely cynical, I would suspect they might have intentionally falsified that response to make it seem like they were more naive than they actually were.

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giancarlostorotoday at 2:09 AM

I think you're on about the ad preferences settings or whatever? I usually wipe those.