It also, consequently, makes the advertisements which they show to you far less valuable. So this feature is not widely advertised.
It also, consequently, makes the advertisements which they show to you far less valuable. So this feature is not widely advertised.
If Google actually honors this setting.
They do. When enabled, they don’t use it to serve you ads based on those things.
They still collect and sell it. They just don’t show you ads based on it.
Google says it doesn’t sell your personal info to third parties. While you would be well within your reason to suspect this isn’t true, it is actually legally relevant because it means, as a consequence, Google doesn’t provide a “do not sell my personal information” opt-out link which would otherwise be required by California law (where Google is headquartered).
I think the Do Not Sell My Information applies to users that are living in California. So Google could just show it to them, and not to all the other users
It’s a good theory but it isn’t true. Google doesn’t show it to anyone.
No, selling your personal info would be detrimental to their business model. It would feed their competitor’s databases. They sell aggregate data, though.