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Why would anyone use this over Proton Mail or the gazillion alternatives if it treats people like shit.
These ads only appear in the "promotions" section of Gmail, the section that is by definition for advertising emails. It's not great, but this is the least intrusive place to put ads.
Whoa, there's remotely tech-savvy people who don't turn off 100% of that "new" inbox sorting stuff? Color me surprised.
That Social/Updates/Promotion shit is absolutely trash shit garbage useless. It does nothing to improve email experience. It exists to serve you ads.
As someone who enjoyed Google Inbox before they killed it, it hurts to read this comment.
That's weird, I feel like it does improve my experience. I like how it categorizes my emails.
It's been like that for a long time.
It's definitely getting far worse lately. It used to only be in promotions but now I'm seeing it in updates too. In promotions it's about 1 ad to every 2-3 emails now when it used to be 1-2 at the top and that's it
Maybe I’m missing something, but hasn’t this been the case since forever?
I mean, Google is an advertising company. I would be surprised if they didn’t serve ads in their free email service.
I've never in my life seen an ad in Gmail mobile app in-line as though it were something in your inbox. I get really frustrated at the indignance over "ad company does ads and you're mad" as if there's not a difference when things get escalated.
It's under the promotions tab. Been that way for a while. I just don't use that tab myself so I don't see it often.
were these not always in gmail?
Yes. They have always been a part of Gmail. Even back when Gmail was invite only they implemented ads (one of my accounts is from 2004).
I've never seen them and have been using it for close to 20 years now
They only show up if you use the tabs. And then I think they are only in Promotions.
Yes they've always been a thing in the promotions/else tabs, anyone who says they aren't around simply hasn't clicked those tabs or registered they existed (in fairness, everything in that tab is generally an ad)
They have been for years now.
Yes it is. It is malware at this point. (It’s trying to trick you into clicking ads.) If I can invite you to try Port87, it’s an email service that I wrote that does the opposite. (Keeps spam out of your inbox, rather than inserting spam into it.)
Full disclosure: I developed and run Port87, and as such, have a financial interest in it.
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Wait until you see Yahoo mail.
Edit: Before you say nobody uses Yahoo mail, it's probably the 2nd most used after gmail at my school, afaik, I haven't met another person using protonmail.
Do you go to school in 1998?
Y'all they have been doing this for literally years. Don't act surprised it's not fucking new.
It's only in the promotions inbox, which if Gmail is sorting correctly is just full of commercial spam anyways. Doesn't really impact the experience for me since I rarely ever check it
Turn off your promotions inbox and only have a main inbox and you don't get ads
If the service is free, you are the product. It's not complicated.
Pay for email, get no ads.
That statement just makes all of FOSS sound bad, and then people have even less of an idea what alternatives they could be using
Advertising company puts adverts in one of few products they didn't shutter two years in.
Years ago.
More at 11.
Looks like your email account is nothing but adverts anyway, so probably not a huge deal?
Wasn't that done for a while by google? But yes - i think ive seen it as well and it's pathetic. I believe u might be able to disable those in gmail settings.
But also - fuck em, use protonmail or mxroute
I remember seeing this at least more than 5 years ago, before discovering the benefits of FOSS.
Lol who the fuck uses the promotions tab?
You are just using Gmail poorly.
Like going to a shopping centre and complaining the stores have ads in front of their stores. There's legitimate concerns about Google and then there's just dumb users.
The promotion tabs is your actual emails, just labeled by Gmail as "promotion". And then there is ads adding to your emails. If you do not open emails in this tab, it's time to do some cleaning friend, and unsubscribe from a bunch of things
Bruh your real name is on the image
Or is it?
It is insiane to me that Google shows these ads to google one subscribers.
I already pay google hundreds of dollars a year, and have done so for years. then over the last 2 yesr they slowly started rolling out intrusive ads into my mobile Gmail app.
It was the final straw for me. I've started slowing migrating my email off Gmail, but my goodness is that ever a slow and painful process.
The real culprit here is BIMI and the Marketing folks.
This is just the beginning, with more mail providers probably joining in sooner or later.
That's what Google is
Use k-9 mail (its a good email client and it supports gmail)
Yep, getting about time to move the rest of my email over to proton...
Google has always done this. I wouldn't know though because I've turned off a lot of the personalization settings and always use adblocking DNS.
Adguard must block this because I've never seen these in my life
They are legally obliged to ~~screw over their users as much as possible~~ maximize shareholder value
I suggest Tutanota or Protonmail.
A email provider shouldn’t require a closed, premium-only, lock-in-required sidecar program just to use IMAP/SMTP. I don’t think the release these bridge apps on BSDs or smaller OSs & you’re forced to use their apps on Android & iOS (no support for KaiOS or other smaller mobile OSs). This should be a giant red flag—kinda like waiving around a Swiss flag as more secure when they will sell you out just as fast as others.
These free-tier-loss-leading strategies are expensive too. If you bump up to premium it’s like $5/mo, but less marketing-heavy options where everyone pays get you all the features–like what I’m using @ 1€/mo.