General Google tracking credit card info - opt out now

[nuraknu]

Google plans to track credit card spending - BBC News

When you turn off ad personalization, it prompts you to go you something called "ad choices". This attempts to opt you out of a bunch of trackers. It pretended it couldn't for some of them, and then the onus was on me to keep clicking "try again". I'm down to one left insisting it can't be disabled.

:-(

It seems like you have to do this in any browser you use. It seems like total bullshit designed to make you let it go.

Also, I'm pretty sure I opted out of ad personalization a long time ago for my Google account. And it's back. So everyone should check, and check on different devices.

I have to look into it further when I'm on my laptop, but I'm on my way home to a sick kiddo, so it might be a while. If anyone has this whole thing down, please post.

 

[BeardOfKnowledge]

No offense, but turning off your ad preferences won't stop that. It's the banks that are giving them the CC meta data.

 

[nuraknu]

No offense, but turning off your ad preferences won't stop that. It's the banks that are giving them the CC meta data.

Ok, so how do you opt out of that?

 

[BeardOfKnowledge]

Ok, so how do you opt out of that?

You don't.

Outside of cancelling your credit card or never using it for online shopping.

 

[nuraknu]

You don't.

Outside of cancelling your credit card or never using it for online shopping.

Totally bogus. Here's that part of the article:

"If people want to avoid having their shopping habits monitored on the high street by Google, by shops or by banks they should restrict the amount of data they hand over.

"Companies track and monitor in order to advertise to us. If we don't want them to do that, take control; don't give your email address for a digital receipt, check the terms and conditions, avoid using loyalty cards and where possible choose to pay with cash."

What I don't like about it is changing the rules of the game like that. Hopefully now there will be a credit card company or bank that comes out as super private to compete.

 

[Hauler]

If I search for something at home, I will see an ad for it at work on an entirely different system. I think it's Amazon as that is the only site I use at both locations with the same sign on. Tricky bastards.

 

[BeardOfKnowledge]

Totally bogus.

No. Read the second statement I made and then read this:

"Companies track and monitor in order to advertise to us. If we don't want them to do that, take control; don't give your email address for a digital receipt, check the terms and conditions, avoid using loyalty cards and where possible choose to pay with cash."

Google buys the info from both CC companies and retailers so they can sell their (useless) services to retailers. This really isn't anything all that new, they're just going about it a different way.

 

[nuraknu]

No. Read the second statement I made and then read this:

"Companies track and monitor in order to advertise to us. If we don't want them to do that, take control; don't give your email address for a digital receipt, check the terms and conditions, avoid using loyalty cards and where possible choose to pay with cash."

Google buys the info from both CC companies and retailers so they can sell their (useless) services to retailers. This really isn't anything all that new, they're just going about it a different way.

I didn't mean you were wrong; I was just complaining about what you were right about.

 

[Wintermute]

Ads can't track encrypted CC info. Those don't even look like google ads...

 

[kneeblock]

Totally bogus. Here's that part of the article:

"If people want to avoid having their shopping habits monitored on the high street by Google, by shops or by banks they should restrict the amount of data they hand over.

"Companies track and monitor in order to advertise to us. If we don't want them to do that, take control; don't give your email address for a digital receipt, check the terms and conditions, avoid using loyalty cards and where possible choose to pay with cash."

What I don't like about it is changing the rules of the game like that. Hopefully now there will be a credit card company or bank that comes out as super private to compete.

There already are. Green dot reloadable Visa cards. Not accepted everywhere, but they'll do in a pinch and don't contain identifying info unless you register using an online companion service.

Sadly, it matters little. Google and others are still tracking your every move through other means. Absent major regulatory reform (and even with it), being off the grid is mostly a fantasy unless you don't use electronic devices at all.

 

[Disciplined Galt]

Lol credit cards I deal in cash only. I am 50$ plus!