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> Gmail, today, already scans your email for ads; https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603 > The process of sel
by justinwp 4y ago
> Gmail, today, already scans your email for ads;
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603
> The process of selecting and showing personalized ads in Gmail is fully automated. These ads are shown to you based on your online activity while you're signed into Google. We will not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads.
- sib 4y agoAlthough it's a fair mistake; Google used to do this. Here is an except from my "welcome to Gmail" message, from Google, from June 2004: "You may also have noticed some text ads or related links to the right of this message. They're placed there in the same way that ads are placed alongside Google search results and, through our AdSense program, on content pages across the web. The matching of ads to content in your Gmail messages is performed entirely by computers; never by people. Because the ads and links are matched to information that is of interest to you, we hope you'll find them relevant and useful."
- hertzrat 4y agoNotice is says “for ads,” and not in general. The terms sneakily allow them to still profile you or use your content in other ways, like training ai systems or reporting you to the government
- rossjudson 4y agoYou're reading a page titled "How Gmail Ads Work".