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Google said that they decided "last year to anonymize our server logs after nine months for IP addresses and 18 months for cookies."

WHY elect the stated 9 months and 18 months extents? If anonymity (i.e., "personal privacy") is of any actual value? Why, oh, why elect these two relatively long periods? Why not just one or two months for the both of them? Or even better, a mere week?

Anyone interested in a given product prolly no longer is beyond a couple of weeks -- as a result of a purchase having been made by then. And so conning advertisers into the idea of forking out for 9 or 18 months, would be a scam.

For example, a cordless electric drill I looked for and ordered online a few days ago I was just now using. It was bought and delivered, and not a week had passed. And the day before I ordered it, I had no thought about making the purchase. And when I did think of it, I had a receipt for the purchase in my email box within the next 20 minutes, or maybe it was a lot less. It was then a done-deal. And any saved cookie about my interest in electric drills is now utter Nonsense, not Adsense.