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Didn’t they announce that they stopped scanning email for ad purposes? (Presumably because it wasn’t actually very lucrative.)
by dpark 5y ago
Didn’t they announce that they stopped scanning email for ad purposes? (Presumably because it wasn’t actually very lucrative.)
- passivate 5y agoIs there any user data that passes through Google owned servers that DOESN'T get data mined?
- dpark 5y agoThat’s literally not possible for me to answer. They did say they aren’t scanning email for advertising purposes anymore though. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/26/534451513/google-says-it-will-no-longer-read-users-emails-to-sell-targeted-ads https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/26/534451513...
- rurp 5y agoEh, sort of. They released a statement to give that impression but the wording was fairly weasely. They likely stopped using email content for directly targeting ads in Gmail, but there's almost no chance email content isn't being used to target people in other contexts.
- dpark 5y agoWhy is there “almost no chance”? They said they won’t email for advertising purposes. There wasn’t much wiggle room with the way they phrased it. It’s possible that they outright lied, I guess. “Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change” https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in-the-enterprise-g-suites-gmail-and-consumer-gmail-to-more-closely-align/ https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
- beeboop 5y ago"content" perhaps doesn't include metadata