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Can Gmail Ads Get Even More Annoying?

• 8organicbits 3y ago
  From article: > The scanning of emails and personal information to serve tailored advertisements [...] > Gmail users may feel uneasy knowing that their private communications and even Google calendar data are being scanned and analyzed for advertising purposes. This appears to be false. From Google (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en): > We will not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads.
  • mikro2nd 3y ago
    > We will not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads. is not the same thing as "We will not scan or read your Gmail messages".
    • 8organicbits 3y ago
      Of course, but the article specifically says that Gmail does it for advertising purposes, which is no longer true [1]. It's pretty reasonable to expect that your email provider is going to "scan" your message content. Performing spam detection, for example, is a pretty common reason and most people want that. Tutanota scans message content: "executing content checks and mark emails as spam or not" [2]. So I don't think they are demonizing message scanning on it's own. If there are objectionable purposes for Gmail's message scanning, let's call those out. [1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-to-stop-scanning-gmail-messages-to-serve-up-ads https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-to-stop-scanning-gmail-mes... [2] https://tutanota.com/support/howto#spam https://tutanota.com/support/howto#spam