Google Guesses Your Age And Sex

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We infer your age and gender based on the websites you've visited. You can remove or edit these at any time.
Age: 35-44
Gender: Male
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They're off the mark big time. I'm not sure how these categories worked out. Especially Toys? Are they inferring adult toys? Maybe they were guessing based off the Thomas Trains I purchased for my nephew a while back through amazon?
 
Age: 65+ more than 2x my actual age.
gender: male At least it got that part right
 
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ninjaturtle said:
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Same message for me too. I do not subscribe to anything google and I do not allow cookies from them on my system either.
Adblock Plus and Ghostery extensions on Firefox seem to work pretty well. :D
 
I think a combination of Adblock and blocking google-analytics javascript has kept me off their radar.
 
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Age: 25-34
Gender: Male

nope, 19
 
I don't recall opting out of this but I got this
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Some of you guys talking about noscript and stuff might wanna be careful:

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I'm new here, though, so maybe the mods aren't hardasses. :p
 
Damn! It said I'm interested in Computers and Electronics (Check, got that), that I live in the US (Check) that I live on the East Coast (Check) that I live in the Mid-Atlantic area (Check) in Washington D.C. (Uh, no... I live in Virginia Beach, four hours away by car, but I am a fan of the Redskins and go to DC fairly regularly). It also said I'm male (yep) and that I'm 65+ years old (WTF? My FATHER is 65+ years old, and while I'm not a kid anymore, I'm not even in my upper 40s).

Sorry, not all that close, Google.
 
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Your demographics
We infer your age and gender based on the websites you've visited. You can remove or edit these at any time.
Age: 25-34
Gender: Male
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Well, I am most certainly a male, but the age guesstimate is one to almost 2 decades higher.
 
It wont even load because I have all google based data blocked from my computer. Did I mention that I don't like being tracked?
 
Age: 25-34
Gender: Male

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Mine ended up being pretty damn accurate:
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Arts & Entertainment - Comics & Animation - Anime & Manga
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Your demographics
We infer your age and gender based on the websites you've visited. You can remove or edit these at any time.
Age: 25-34
Gender: Male
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Oh, and then this:

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World Localities - North America - USA - Mid-Atlantic (USA) - New York State - New York City

What is funny is I NEVER listen to hip-hop or rap (can't stand either), and live on the complete opposite end of the country from New York, and have zero connections there. Never even been there.

The rest is pretty accurate, but it's funny how far off those two are.
 
Mostly right, has the age a bit wrong though.


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Your demographics
We infer your age and gender based on the websites you've visited. You can remove or edit these at any time.
Age: 25-34
Gender: Male
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I get a completely blank page. I opted out of both the Google advertising cookie and Google Analytics a long time ago. On top of that I block them/mark them untrusted with AdBlock Plus and NoScript just to be sure.
 
PaperclipGod said:
Some of you guys talking about noscript and stuff might wanna be careful:



I'm new here, though, so maybe the mods aren't hardasses. :p
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I'd think it best to let the Mods make that call. personally I dont see this (sub part of the thread) as a conversation so much about "How to" ad-block, as to the effects and consequences of ad-blocking on the main story, being online targeted advertising and data mining by use of cookies. Would be like talking about the front of a coin but not the back.
 
DeathPrincess said:
So porn doesn't affect this :p
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Maybe Google felt they couldn't advertise porn to everyone all the time, which would have been the result if they'd included porn ;)
Intel_Hydralisk said:
I sent the link to a 15 year old girl... google thinks she's a 18-24 year old guy.
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Are you sure she's not one of those FBI agents? :p

Anyway, I'm 18-24 male, not far off, I'm 25, 26 in a few weeks. Though it included comics/animation and online dating/personals in my categories which is pretty far from what I use the interwebs.
 
Wow...it thinks I'm a lot younger than reality. I must be doing something right because it knows very little about me.
 
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Shopping - Apparel
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Demographics - Age - 25-34
Demographics - Gender - Male


This is odd because I use Bing. However It is right for my age and gender.
 
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