Google I/O 2022 introduced a lot of exciting software and hardware. You may have missed My Ad Center in the mix, but we don’t blame you. The core idea is to give users more control over the ads that Google shows across all platforms. You can customize what you see and don’t want to see, see advertiser profiles and which ads they’re running.
My Ad Center has many options. If you don’t like the ads you see based on your data, you can turn off personalized ads altogether. Let’s see how you can effectively use the Control Center to customize the ads that Google shows you.
How Google customizes the ads you see in My Ad Center
You can access My Ad Center from any internet browser on your Android phone, Chromebook, or PC. For this guide, we used a Windows laptop.
1. go to myadcenter.google.com.
2. Toggle personalized advertising is set to upon Customize your ad.
3. Customize your ad Tabs from the left menu.
4. Start with and browse each category one by one. topic.
5. Click . + Click and click the button for the topic you want to see more ads – For topics you want to reduce ads on.
6. Next,[ブランド]Click a category.
7. Click . + Click and click the button of the brand you want to see more ads – For brands that want to reduce advertising.
8. sensitive subsequent categories.
9. disable toggle For topics you are sensitive to and don’t want to see related ads.
Ten. Manage your privacy Tabs from the left menu.
11. Scroll down to Categories used to display ads See what elements are used to personalize your ads. These are not all elements that Google uses, but they can be customized or disabled.
12. Click the bottom tile. Categories used to display ads Customize or disable.
13. After customizing or disabling tiles, back arrow Go back to other tiles.
14. Continue scrolling down to Activities used for advertising personalization section.
15. Click each tile to customize or disable topics based on your settings.
Learn more about Google’s personalized ads
Nobody likes advertising, but they rarely actually help. My Ad Center helps you track the ads you see. If you find something you’re interested in and lost it, My ad tab.
But how does Google personalize ads? The answer is clear. data collection. This includes use on all Google platforms and its partners, such as YouTube and Google Search, subject to user preferences and consent. It also includes certain personal information such as relationship status, age and location data.
If you don’t want your ads to be random, but want to draw a line somewhere, My Ad Center can help you create the boundaries. Admittedly, it doesn’t offer you total, total control. By caring about digital privacy, we are one step closer to achieving it, or at least one step further.
