…use my personal information to target advertisements!!!!

While browsing my YouTube privacy settings I noticed an option that states “Please use my account information to provide me with relevant advertising”. It of course is checked by default. I am torn between whether I am more amused with the wording of that default privacy selection or the “More Ads” button on Facebook. At any rate, as always, check your privacy settings on any website you have an account on.

I plan on leaving the YouTube setting checked, seeing as they do provide me a free service, and the more targeted their ads, the more ad revenue they are likely to get, which in turn will keep the content free for my listening and visual pleasure. However, the “Please use…” at the beginning of that check box still makes me laugh.

Figure 1. “More Ads” Facebook button

Figure 2. YouTube Privacy Settings