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This should be a surprise to no one, and is not unique to Facebook. Gmail has been scanning the email it's servers receive since it's inception. Initially thi
by balls187 9y ago
This should be a surprise to no one, and is not unique to Facebook.
Gmail has been scanning the email it's servers receive since it's inception.
Initially this was to show ad relevancy. Once your email content became more valuable than showing ads, Google removed ads.
- stvswn 9y agoGoogle shows ads on Gmail under the Promotions tab. It does not scan emails to target ads. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603
- balls187 9y agoIt does not scan email for ad-targeting anymore https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html Google has enough data on you that it no longer needs to scan email to show you relevant ads.