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There is still no evidence that they are reading your emails so it's not the same. I am fine with ads, just as long as they don't mine my data and follow me ar
by EduardoBautista 8y ago
There is still no evidence that they are reading your emails so it's not the same. I am fine with ads, just as long as they don't mine my data and follow me around.
- Havoc 8y ago>I am fine with ads, just as long as they don't mine my data and follow me around. Pretty much every ad platform out there does exactly that
- EduardoBautista 8y agoDuckduckgo does not. Hacker News does not. There are many examples. Ads on blogs such as Daring Fireball and Coding Horror do not. I gladly whitelist these sites.
- DoctorOW 8y agoDo Hacker News and Daring Fireball have ad platforms?
- jonhohle 8y agoUntil march of last year Daring Fireball had The Deck[0]. Now it's just weekly sponsors, AFAIK. 0 - https://daringfireball.net/2017/03/the_deck_adieu https://daringfireball.net/2017/03/the_deck_adieu
- Silfen 8y agoHN has in-feed ads for Y Combinator businesses. A great example of benevolent, win-win advertising, in my opinion.
- Havoc 8y agoSure there are fringe cases where it's not true. In substance ad platforms are now tracking & targeting mechanisms. That's the "value" they sell, not their ability to deliver ads.
- CyberDildonics 8y agoReally? You can do the experiment yourself by sending certain emails and eventually getting ads target off what words were in them. I don't think this was controversial.
- mynameisvlad 8y agoParent comment is talking about the Mail app, I believe.