Earlier quoted context omitted.
To play Devil's advocate, the ads benefit you because they make Gmail free.
I would rather pay and do not share anything with Google (or for that matter all of Google's partners who can purchase our data)
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
The spam filter is for my benefit, but scanning for ad keywords is designed to benefit someone else, not me.
Ads benefit both you and the other group that they connect you. You finding out about, say, a product you are interested benefits you.
What if you're buddhist?
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
The spam filter is for my benefit, but scanning for ad keywords is designed to benefit someone else, not me.
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
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#84I 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."
Actually, you can buy some paint that blocks all RF signals. It's absurdly expensive but quite effective. There aren't many ways to get signals out of a room painted with the stuff. If you're thinking "Why not just build a faraday cage?" then you're thinking the right thing.
> "Why not just build a faraday cage?"
Then my very next thought is, "Who is going to notice my house-sized faraday cage, who are they going to tell, and what are those people going to do in turn?"
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#85I 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."
Same. I completed the headline in my head with "because they don't need to anymore".
Re: Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads
#86How do you know? That's the problem with closed source software, and software that runs in someone else's computer. You have no idea what it does. You aren't in control. Someone else is deciding what code runs on your computer. That's a problem.
How do you know they were ever reading your email to begin with? Maybe they were never reading your email and this is just a publicity stunt to backtrack on an unpopular decision that they never actually made.
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#88Hope this increases the chance of E2E encryption
How would you search your inbox? Or filter spam?
Using metadata? Headers? Anything other than Tue email body would be nice. We still have blacklisting by IP and stuff like that.
I mean if I write a Nigerian prince email and send it to my mum, it should reach her no matter what the text says, right?
Re: Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads
#89Hope this increases the chance of E2E encryption
How would you search your inbox? Or filter spam?
Using metadata? Headers? Anything other than Tue email body would be nice. We still have blacklisting by IP and stuff like that.
I mean if I write a Nigerian prince email and send it to my mum, it should reach her no matter what the text says, right?
Re: Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
stopped scanning Gmail altogether. Note that this is not what the article says. It says that they stopped scanning Gmail for ads , but does not say they stopped scanning email for non-ad purposes.
Any spam filtering implies scanning right? (Unless the filtering is purely on basis of headers and other non-message-body info)
It depends on whether you consider mail headers part of the email. I personally think scanning mail headers still counts as scanning email.