Google TV prompting users with ‘Personalized ads update’ message

In latest days, Google TV has been displaying a “Personalized ads update” on televisions and streaming units.

First off, it is a disclosure and never a software program replace. This notification seems in Quick Settings and opens a dialog field when clicked:

When personalised ads are on, they could be primarily based in your Google Account information and exercise on Google TV and different Google services and products, equivalent to Google Search and YouTube. This information and exercise are used to personalize ads that seem in Google-owned advert areas on Google TV and associate apps. Ads are usually not personalised if the age related with the signed-in account is below 18 years previous.

Your exercise and Google Account information are usually not shared with associate apps and your exercise information from these associate apps isn’t shared with Google.

• Review and management ads personalization settings: go to g.co/adssettings
• Review and management information shared between Google merchandise: go to g.co/myactivitycontrols

As far as we are able to inform, there have been no precise adjustments or additions to Google TV settings. The message simply permits you to shut the dialog field after studying with no additional actions.

Personalized ads aren’t new to the platform and are tied to your Google Account. In November, the corporate launched “My Ad Center” to let folks customise their promoting by pursuits and types.

• Google app including ‘Ads personalization’ shortcut with ‘Privacy & Security’ settings

Like on Android telephones, Google TV permits you to reset or delete your promoting ID from the Settings app > Privacy > Ads.

Anyway, naming this an “update” is especially complicated, with many Google TV users, together with Chromecast homeowners, seeing this message about personalised ads. It’s not clear why Google is broadly alerting users about it now.

More on Google TV:

• Android TV and Google TV ads proceed to push ads for bodily merchandise, now together with automobiles
• Google TV homescreen redesign rolling out with new Quick Settings on Chromecast
• Google TV integrates with over 50 streaming companies and apps, right here’s the total listing [U]
• Google TV: The historical past of Google in the lounge, evolution of Android TV, and what’s subsequent

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