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Re: Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?

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Post by cm127 »

tsieling wrote: post #145
harrytuttle wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you pay for it? No. Quit complaining, pay for it (Google Apps), or move on.

So if something doesn't cost you money, you have no business complaining about something you don't like? Weird logic. If someone offers something under any terms, it seems ok to me to say what I think of it. Your position seems to be that if it's free, it's illegitimate to comment on it.

The point is you get what you give. If you want a "better" service, it's going to cost you. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Re: Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?

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Post by Shooti »

Tyrannosaurs wrote: post #72
icebraining wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's in the "Promotions" tab, not the primary inbox. Personally, I think there are better reasons to leave Gmail (which is why I did so years ago).

So if I've got rid of that (generally I have fewer than half a dozen e-mails in my inbox so tabs were pretty pointless for me) where do they appear? My assumption was in the regular inbox.

They'd appear above the inbox just like they always did. The new promotion tab ads are essentially a new presentation style of what was always there.

Re: Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?

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Post by ChrisClark »

jaredmcateer wrote: post #157
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as Gmail's spam filter catches Google's own spam as well everything is fine ;-)

I've trained Gmail to put my G+ Instant Upload Share notification into the spam box. It has a link on the email to manage subscriptions, I turned off every god damn email option in G+ yet I still get "You have X photos to share". I maybe shared 1% of the photos I take, like picasa before it I use G+ as a cloud back up of my photos.

You must have missed the right checkbox. I turned it off once, never got another email.

Re: Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?

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Post by bearbin »

3JPLW wrote: post #168
Tyrannosaurs wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're adverts presented in the same place you see your e-mails but as they haven't been sent the the way an e-mail is, they won't have used any e-mail protocol, you won't be able to reply to them as e-mails and so on so they aren't e-mails so won't be covered by this.

So does this also mean that they won't show up in IMAP clients?

Yes

Re: Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?

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Post by Dylan16807 »

icebraining wrote: post #40
Tyrannosaurs wrote: post #14

So to all intents and purposes this is targeted, Google endorsed spam delivered directly to my inbox? If that's the case then it could be time to start looking for a replacement for the last Google product I use.

It's in the "Promotions" tab, not the primary inbox. Personally, I think there are better reasons to leave Gmail (which is why I did so years ago).

Inbox is inbox.

Re: Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?

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Post by devcpp »

minikites wrote: post #123
freehunter wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I looked at Fastmail recently, but then I saw the Opera logo and hesitated. I want to know what would happen to them if Opera cannot maintain profitability. I'd like to know my mail provider is going to stick around a while.

Fastmail has been around since 1999, I think it's going to be okay.

Google had been around for over 10 years when it started doing bad things with its services too.
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