It also, consequently, makes the advertisements which they show to you far less valuable. So this feature is not widely advertised.

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Turning off the targeted ads settings indeed prevents Google from showing you overtly targeted ads. It makes no claim that it prevents Google from harvesting the same data that is used to target ads

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