Google will let you request fewer ads about weight loss and dating
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#5YN4N)
More choices about the ads you see. | Image: Google Google is expanding its sensitive ad categories options, letting users limit how many ads they see about dating, pregnancy, parenting, and weight loss, and making those settings apply to more places. The feature was introduced as a way to let people see fewer ads on YouTube about potentially addictive gambling or alcoholic products, but now it seems that Google is expanding it to cover other potentially uncomfortable or traumatic subjects.
Your settings will now apply to all of Google's Display network, not just YouTube ads, according to Elijah Lawal, a spokesperson for the company. Google says the network is a group of more than 2 million websites, videos, and apps" that advertisers can target users across.
To access the feature, go...