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Email in Gmail isn't used for ad targeting, so this line of thinking doesn't follow well.
by joshuamorton 8y ago
Email in Gmail isn't used for ad targeting, so this line of thinking doesn't follow well.
- 0x262d 8y agoimagine thinking this
- SquareWheel 8y agoPlease keep these reddit-esque comments to other platforms.
- craftinator 8y agoSo says... Google?
- umeshunni 8y agoThe fact that you're being downvoted for stating the facts is a good indication of HN's groupthink.
- Sabinus 8y agoJust because Google stopped scanning email for ad targeting two years ago doesn't detract from the fact that it was their practice for ten years previously. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html
- joshuamorton 8y agoSure, but GP contended that > Gmail’s spam filtering is just a pretext for passing all email through a machine learning system. Sure, one possible signal emitted by that system is whether a message is spam or not. Perhaps this determination is conflated with wether the message is useful for ad targeting And well, that's clearly not the case if Google moved from doing both ad targeting and spam to just spam. The evidence is literally Google moving in the polar opposite direction from the nefariousness that they suggest.
- calibas 8y agoUp until recently it was used for ad targeting.