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Yahoo Japan thinks I'm a woman despite my Yahoo profile saying otherwise. All I get is ads for women's undies and makeup.

Google's search is pretty bad too, it really pushes me to the Japanese page even though I want English since the results differ. They hide the English page link way at the bottom in small font text and don't make clear that it's the English version.



A better explanation is that Yahoo! Japan believes you are a cross-dresser...


There definately is a correlation of "coming up with this thought" and "what username do I pick on HN?".


Maybe their machine learning thinks your transsexual.


Yahoo Japan thinks you're a typical Yahoo Japan user.




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