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> If you told someone 2008 that the fun scrappy startup offering Gmail would be reading your emails Google explicitly stated their would read your emails to sh
by lern_too_spel 6y ago
> If you told someone 2008 that the fun scrappy startup offering Gmail would be reading your emails
Google explicitly stated their would read your emails to show ads next to them at launch. This was a surprise to nobody.
> and only stopped
It never stopped reading mail. How do you think searching your inbox or filtering spam work?
In light of this, the rest of your post is pure conspiracy theory nonsense. Google was upfront about the reasons for reading your mail at the beginning. Why should any of that change?
- marricks 6y agoWow, Google did lunch with ad scanning huh! I misremembered the controversy, I followed it closely at launch but that was loong ago. That does hurt my premise but I think it overall still holds: - Google did stop reading email for ads in 2017 as I said in an other post[1]. - Google does have a policy of innovate then monetize later. That was explicitly what they did with Google Maps - GMail was a good (but bit wrong as I brought up!) example of creeping surveillance, but Chrome provides a good example as well[2]. Google sells ads, it's products will be optimized to gather information for it. [1] https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-emails-1202477321/ https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-email... [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/google-chrome-privacy/google-hit-with-new-privacy-lawsuit-over-chrome-browser-data-idUSL2N2EZ24W https://www.reuters.com/article/google-chrome-privacy/google...
- rossjudson 6y agoUpvoting, because it's sadly quite rare to read "thank you for providing clarifying facts, and I shall appropriately update my opinions".