@gwen-dragon: I agree Google shows you what is relevant for them. Remember the Google Ads Preferences Manager of 2009? Google claimed for two years that you could use it to opt out of targeted advertising. I was suspicious of this claim in 2011 and began investigating. Reality: you could opt out for about a day. If you hit a Google property during that day, Google would replace the opt-out cookie with a new one to track you. Because they are everywhere on the internet, no opt-out cookie lasted more than 24 hours, even if the original one set its expiry decades into the future. Google can't claim that this wasn't by design, as every other member of the NAI was able to engineer cookies that lasted. After getting exposed by me to the NAI, they were forced to change this. There are many other examples of Google doing what's right for Google, and screw whatever settings we put in.
