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>Regardless of the version, neither use your emails for ad-serving or "spying". I thought it was known that Gmail does. I can immediately see articles as recen

• zinekeller 4y ago
  > as recent as 2018 > did something change since then? GDPR, LGDP and equivalent laws plus the tangibility of emails (instead of the relatively-nebulous web history which Google could simply blame on "we only know what website we're serving from, we don't track you"). I don't know if US residents still get targeted ads using mail data though.
• amf12 4y ago
  "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" [1]. This was apparently changed in 2017 [2]. [1] [1] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en#:~:text=The%20process%20of%20selecting%20and,messages%20to%20show%20you%20ads https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en#:~:text=Th.... [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html