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> - the known and blatant indexing it does of your email content to power their profiles of users for ads They have made very explicit statements about not usi
by jsnell 4y ago
> - the known and blatant indexing it does of your email content to power their profiles of users for ads
They have made very explicit statements about not using email content to target ads. So it's neither "known" nor "blatant".
- cdnsteve 4y agoThis isn't actually true. Source examples but many more. - https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/google-tracks-your-purchases-heres-how-to-see-what-gmail-knows/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/google-tracks-your-purchase... - https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/5tfd8n/google_knows_what_you_buy_on_steam/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/5tfd8n/google_knows_... -
- themacguffinman 4y agoGoogle doesn't deny that it scans your email for information, it denies that it uses that data for ad targeting and profiling. Your links don't challenge that claim.
- jsnell 4y agoHow does either of those example demonstrate email contents being used for ad targeting? What I see is just a more convenient UI for displaying what I've bought than searching for the individual receipts in the email archive. There's just no ambiguity in Google's statements about email contents not being used for any kind of advertising purposes.