Google updated its terms of service recently to allow them to use your real name and face alongside ads, under an expansion of its “shared endorsements” program. To stop Google from using details from your Google+ profile in its ad campaign, go to the Shared Endorsements page on Google+. Scroll down to this option: “Based upon my activity, Google may show my name and profile photo in shared endorsements that appear in ads.” Uncheck the box and click ‘Save’.
According to Google’s new and not-so-improved (in our opinion) terms, this includes your “Google profile name, profile photo, and actions you take on Google or third-party applications connected to your Google Account (such as +1’s, review you write and recommendations you post) in our Services.”
It’s all part of Google’s new Shared Endorsements plan, which ensures “that your reviews, recommendations and other relevant activity” get in front of “the people you really care about” in the form of ads and in other “shopping contexts” that they might see when cruising for apps, music and other stuff in the Google Play store and elsewhere.
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