Due to stress of working at Amazon I saw a psychiatrist on the 31st of March. She later sent me an email to my gmail with the list of things I can do to reduce stress. Today YouTube is only showing me ads of prescription medication which I can use to treat depression. Ad tech companies are truest criminals. They won’t leave anything and exploit every data shamelessly. Wonder how can I discontinue all google tech. #thieves #bloodsuckers
I think my blood glucose monitoring software (Dexcom) is selling my data. I had anomalously low blood sugar all week due to physical activity, and now I’m seeing ads related to low blood sugar. It’s the most likely scenario, but I find it pretty hard to believe that a medical device company would do this. The only other thing I can think of is maybe an app on my phone detected my anomalous amount of movement and also knows I’m a type 1 diabetic. I live alone and don’t talk to anyone about this, so nothing picked up my conversation, at least.
Cool, a dexcom user! I use nightscout,check it out. You don't really need the dexcom app.
So at no point in the last month have you googled anything related to depression, seeing a psychiatrist, visited websites about mental health-related topics? Never ever ever? It’s far more likely you’re noticing the ads now and that they’re based on other behavior. Albeit I don’t work at Google they’d be in a world of hurt if people caught them scanning emails for ads targeting again.
Free stuff owns you 🤷🏼♂️
Sad story about the world we are living in. Next you know Amazon would be doing the same.
I don't understand. You've enabled ads based on Gmail and got ads relevant to your Gmail. Are you upset that you left this feature enabled or are you upset that you got relevant ads. What ads should be shown to someone dealing with stress who has opted into personal ads? Penis enlargement pills?
Left this feature enabled? So default is that Gmail reads all emails of everyone, and you have to find and disable it? Also OP says he disabled all tracking.
I disabled personalized stuff long time ago. That setting is bullshit, google is still plundering my data.
If it's a free product, you are not the customer
I don’t think it’s possible to disconnect but maybe consider a VPN to help solve some of the issues? Not sure if this will even work but sounds like the key to this would be anonymity. Again, not even sure if this will help but…
Use Adblock and PrivacyBadger. Problem solved. 🙄
Google.. do no evil They are only trying to "help" you
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You can turn off personalized ads, maybe?
Already did king time ago. Also switched tracking off in the iOS settings.
Not sure if google personalizes ads based on gmail inbox (because of so many spam and promotional mail). More than likely, this is the clinic uploading your contact to google for display ads targeting.