8 ms·
The person they're sending it to could also publish it on the front page of the New York Times. This issue is about what the receiver wants to do with the emai
by skj 13y ago
The person they're sending it to could also publish it on the front page of the New York Times.
This issue is about what the receiver wants to do with the email, so by using gmail, or forwarding to gmail, the receiver is opting to have all his or her mails scanned by Google for ad placement.
- babesh 13y agoIsn't the sender then also potentially a target for ad re targeting even though they were never on gmail at all?
- cynwoody 13y agoAssuming the sender is not also on Gmail, how does Gmail manage to show her ads?
- mschuster91 13y agoIt is, as a sender, my responsibility to not send information to people I can't trust. So if I think the recipient may post a picture of my wiener on the NYT front page, I should not do this. However, if I do not know that the recipient uses Google Mail, it is not okay that Google scans and potentially indexes my wiener...
- skj 13y agoI see no fundamental difference.
- beagle3 13y agorecipient had forwarded email to google, by setting their MX record to google's server.
- cynwoody 13y agoWhere is it alleged that Google is doing that? Did you find a picture of your wiener on Google Images? What search terms did you use? Or did you take a quick snap and drop it on the camera icon in the Google Image Search box? I've not done the wiener experiment, but I do know that Google's ad placement algorithms are fairly simple-minded. For instance, our CFO sent me a request for a dump of some accounts off the accounting server. What ads did I see? Dumpster rentals and local trash haulers!