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I hadn't thought about skewing the ad auctions that way, thanks. I used to get ads for fancy river cruises, Peloton, high-end furniture cookware etc and will try searching for that stuff again, but am guessing the data brokers know I no longer earn an income. Failing that maybe pretending to be looking for payday loans, lottery, coupons might be "lucrative" enough.

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The canonical example I've heard of from Googlers is "yoga pants", though that's out of date. Go with something that's trendy this year.

With any luck, they'll think you have a rich significant othet. I somehow accidentally convinced them I have a mistress with a taste for $600 machine washable silk pyjamas (there is apparently a company that specializes in only that!)

It helps to clear cookies, etc immediately before kicking the recommendation engine.

That seems to significantly lower the weight it puts on the prior. Instead of being a native Spanish speaker, I now know Vietnamese.

(Of course, all of these inferences about me are wrong.)

Aycd and kylin will search popular terms with your Google profile. It’s called farming usally too increase capcha score but it’s also useful to improve the noise floor to make it hard to target ads.

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