56 links have been added on 16 ideas about #google.
  1. Mr N

    I found another one!

  2. Yeah, but fake stuff is becoming a real problem if you like the real world to stay separate from the fake world. Last time folk mixed those up you got a God and a church hell-bent on taking over the entire world. Just sayin’

  3. The guy who paid to create this fictional station believes in it just as much as other people believe the real station is fake. Each to his own. But I would like option to filter out anything that isn’t an actual photo in Google Images, so I like the idea tbh.

  4. This is exactly why the got rid of their best employee Matt Cutts. Yep they turned linking into a crime. Now we have to go and meet shady types to get our fix in backstreets online.

  5. Don’t hold your breath. Maybe they are just giving them loads of traffic and users before they buy them out. For now, you can just block them from the results, shame though. Google was the best once.

  6. If you can’t beat them? copy them

  7. “Facebook released a tool that lets people see how it tracks their “off-Facebook activity.” AHH SO YOU JUST TOLD FACEBOOK YOU ARE TRYING TO SPY BACK – GREAT. GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.

  8. There are some apps, but they are very limited – fact is, Facebook doesn’t let them know ALL the stuff it gathers about your browsing habits, so no app or plugin could really do it.

  9. That would be great, especially if it allowed you to delete info you don’t want it to know. For now there is this… https://www.alphr.com/facebook/1003521/see-everything-facebook-knows-about-you-here-s-how/

  10. The reason it doesn’t want to fix the problem is that the company we all think of as a search engine is actually an advertising company. It made almost $137bn in revenues in 2018 – of which $116bn, or 85pc, came from ad spending.

  11. 240 answers on Quora, but google doesn’t even ask you for your interests since it killed G+. I guess it ain’t forgotten all that percy info though. So it did work, a short term social platform to get your data, then close show with it. Clever.

  12. Feedly should allow you to customise your news, with negative keywords, you know, all news except celebrity, xfactor, royal, trump etc. If anyone knows a news app that lets you customise stories, add the link, I need it before I give up on the world completely.

  13. It’s crazy Google can’t get it together to allow you to ban an email sender. All social media sites set you free from folks you don’t want to hear from – but no, they just put it in spam. how silly.

  14. You really want google to know more about you? bet it can list your interests faster than you can. it knows which sites you went to and which articles you read. That’s more than your friends know about you.

  15. swagbooks should let you dictate which type of ads to watch for sure, once there are enough people using it you could just watch sports ads, or just motoring, or whatever, Bound to be done properly by someone one day.

  16. Watch ads and get paid – i would if it was only my hobbies or interests, yeah, bring it on.

  17. Top answer on quora “YouTube announced publicly that they will show you a video that you already watched because it is likely that you will watch it again.” – but no reason why you can’t just tick a box to stop it suggesting the same video time and time again.

  18. Just realised thousands of people already voted for this – google isn’t bothering doing anything about it. Shame, as I don’t want to click the “not interested” button as that may discourage it from suggesting similar videos, just a no repeats button would do – thought they were clever enough to guess folk didn’t like repeats.

  19. to see your instagram “interests” it guesses rather than just asks you… ” To get to the list on mobile, go to Settings, then Security. Go to Access Data, then scroll all the way down to the bottom, where you’ll see Ad Interests, and select “View All.” On desktop, go to Settings, then Privacy & Security. Select “View Account Data,” and you’ll find Ad Interests at the bottom right.”

  20. You can do this in Gmail with ContactMonkey – great idea btw

  21. Instagram – you can change them, its been done, just not well.

  22. Instagram is using your interests in ads. but with poor results, usually – link https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/instagram-ads-interests-how-find-results-wrong-299876

  23. Early days but this idea is starting to become real, come on google!

  24. Crazy, even android just let you opt-out rather than put in your interests and see ads relating to them. Why don’t any of them do it?

  25. FB bides your interests a bit. Easy for advertisers to tap into though.

  26. Would be great to filter this crap out of news websites and social, but here’s your problem… “51% of people from their sample accessed the news through social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, and are more interested in the ‘soft news’ stories.”

  27. Why don’t google allow you to add a list of your interests, so they can compare it to the interests it’s Artificial Intelligence is machine learning from you.

  28. Heaps of folks have this problem, Gmail hasn’t yet added a setting that stops you from having to click buttons in every single wide email just to see the text in a popout.