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It's either an unhealthy obsession with Google or just old fashioned astroturf. I have a third theory that since Matt Cutts started commenting here, he brought the SEO types with h…

Be my guest but when you write the mandatory post don't single out Google as a link bait.

I'm pointing to that they're not a new encounter, and that they are clearly delineated as ads.

They're not "sneaking ads as email": http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/06/ads-in-gmails-promo...

I'm comparing ad formats. And I'm illustrating that in the case of these new gmail ads not only are they restricted to a designated area, they can also be disabled altogether.

I think it's fair to assume that HN is a fairly technical community and could manage such a feat on its own, so these: "here is how to switch from [insert Google service] to its co…

Twitter ads look like tweets, Facebook ads look like Facebook posts, and of course search ads look like search results, at least in Gmail they have their own designated area. They …

Yeah but he doesn't have the password, unless somehow he hacked Google's servers for that specific one. It's the combination of both that makes it unlikely, there are far easier/be…

It's more than "unlikely", it's ridiculous. It's the longest way around and possibly the stupidest route to get onto someone's Wifi network.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6057363

You can turn it off if you like: Settings > Privacy > Backup my data, backup application data, Wi-fi passwords, and other settings to Google servers. Every few months someone redis…

What about: "I don't want to" or "It kills usability: search, IMAP, labels ...".