Privacy Concerns for Google Targeted Ads

Two online privacy groups have slammed Google for launching a behavioral advertising program, with one of them calling the plan a privacy "disaster."

Google's proposal would bring user tracking to the world's largest ad network, said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "It's a disaster," he said. "It's about whether the most dominant Internet media firm should be able to exploit its access to Internet user data for advertising purposes. Google long maintained it would not do this type of advertising. Indeed, they claimed they didn't need to and they went after others who did."

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Google Ads - Opt Out - Targeted ads

You can opt out of Google Ads which may be targeted based on your internet behaviour.

Here is a video from Google



Opt out of the Google Targeted Behaviour here

Google Ads everywhere

After Toolbar, now its Google News, Google is splattering ads everywhere it can.

via Mashable

Google Sponsored ads on Toolbar suggest

Google has released Google Toolbar 6 for IE and that has a suggest feature!

What's more, it also lists out sponsored ads in the suggestion box

Looks like the marketing team is getting to work finally, pushing ads almost everywhere possible!

via Arstechnica

Change font for adsense ?

Google Adsense now allows you to change the Fonts for your ads!

There are currently three options available - Arial, Times and Verdana font faces

It may not appear in your adsense account immediately

Click on the above image to see how it looks!

Just as with color and placement optimizations, we encourage you to test these new font options to find the best combination for your sites. For instance, you can try matching the font face of your ads to that of your sites. Enjoy the new font faces, and feel free to leave feedback in our comments field below.

Adsense between Blogger Posts

1 Log into your Blogger account at http://www.blogger.com .
2 Visit your blog's Template tab and click on the Page Elements link.
3 Click Edit in the Blog Posts section.
4.Check the box next to Show Ads Between Posts. You can then select how often you'd like your ads to appear, such as once after every post or once after every other post.
5.Please note that right now, it's only possible to insert Google ads using this widget, and not AdSense for search boxes or referral units.

Via Adsense.blogspot.com

Google Adsense - no support, you are screwed!

Does Google give you any support at all ? One of my friends had his Adsense account disabled and despite many mails to Adsense Support (email) and the Invalid Clicks Appeal
they don't seem to respond at all. My friend owns a popular website which gets over 8000 pageviews per day (not named, because his invalid clicks appeal is not responded yet!)

It's just not Adsense, Google doesn't provide any support to most of the products be it Google Groups, Gmail or more . Services go down regularly, and there is nil support!

The intoxication of being rich and big has got to Google for sure!