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Ads benefit both you and the other group that they connect you. You finding out about, say, a product you are interested benefits you.
That's just a rare side-effect, not the reason why the scanning happens, or why the ads are shown.
I don't understand why there isn't an option for me to pay for Google to remove ads from gmail. I've already paid for Youtube Red and couldn't be happier.
https://gsuite.google.com/products/gmail/ About $60 a year I have about 8 accounts that I use.
I should probably get fitted for a tinfoil hat because my immediate reaction was, "Oh shit! They must've developed something now that tracks you better and is less obvious."
I don't understand why there isn't an option for me to pay for Google to remove ads from gmail. I've already paid for Youtube Red and couldn't be happier.
There is. It's called gsuite.
I never understood the argument that some automatic scanning for keywords is like "reading" your mail. By that same logic isn't Gmail's spam filter still "reading" your mail? It is classifying your mail based on content after all...
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Ads benefit both you and the other group that they connect you. You finding out about, say, a product you are interested benefits you.
In theory, yes In actuality: they are a waste of my time and mental space
Having said that, I've never clicked on an ad in Gmail since 2004 or so.
It's about time! I wonder if this is due to the fact that if email encryption becomes common, the content will be inaccessible to Google anyway.
I doubt it. That's a pretty big "if".
OK but will Google stop reading my email for other types of ads? For example, if I write "I love coffee" in an email, am I more likely to see a Starbucks ad when I visit watch a YouTube video?
Hope this increases the chance of E2E encryption
How would you search your inbox? Or filter spam?
I remember there was a recent paper that dealt with this, too, but I can't find it right now. But it basically demolished this argument that it's impossible to stop spam if the email is encrypted.
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That's just a rare side-effect, not the reason why the scanning happens, or why the ads are shown.
The ads are shown exactly for that reason. If the only ads shown were for products or services or information which the consumer was not interested in, then no one would pay for advertisements in the first place.