I don't care about trucks, Google...

January 27, 2019 10:58 AM

Is there a way to fix my suggested topics in Chrome?

On my Android phone I get suggestions for articles may be interested in on Chrome's new tab screen. Which is great! Some of those articles I am interested in and click on. But some of the suggestions are way off. For a while I was getting endless stories on mountain lions (which, while cool, I don't need to see every local news report about a sighting). Now it's truckers, Queen and Led Zeppelin (both bands I like, but I don't really care about everything Brian May said in interviews). Is there anywhere in my Google account I can see what Google thinks I like and edit some of these?

posted by downtohisturtles to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

https://adssettings.google.com
posted by Garm at 11:10 AM on January 27, 2019

On mobile, you can simply swipe each crappy suggestion to the left and it goes away, and after a few ‘no’ swipes on a topic, it doesn’t come back in my experience.
posted by SaltySalticid at 11:20 AM on January 27, 2019 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Trust me. I've swiped and swiped. Still comes up for me.
posted by downtohisturtles at 11:28 AM on January 27, 2019

Click the three dots on the topic and select "I don't care about >>>>". I do it multiple times a day but it never shows me the same topics once I click that. You can also click the little up/down flag and choose "more like this" or "less like this" to see less Zep and Queen and Mountain Lions, etc.
posted by dobbs at 6:02 PM on January 27, 2019