Google literally giving me sex talk lines.
The only “mildly infuriating” part about this is the stray mark you made on the screenshot.
The other stuff – the offensive ad and the abuse of Grace Hopper’s name – is more than “mildly.”
Double tap. OP is a thoughtful person.
I’ve used Gmail since 2005 and don’t ever remember seeing ads, but then again I use ad blockers on pretty much all my devices.
2000 or so for me. I have no idea how people are seeing ads in their inbox.
The public beta started in like 04 or 05 IIRC, I got my Gmail account my freshman year of college. I guess you were one of the cool people that got in on the closed beta.
I was able to see ads but I had to look for it. I can see them if I enable the promotions section and the look in the promotions section.
So the ads are in the section labeled “ads”, who would have thought! (not being snide with you, just that’s where they should be haha)
give it a few years and you’ll be seeing only ads and maybe an occasional email.
Okay, but the rest of these emails also look like advertising spam…
Fair, it’s been a long while since I’ve unsubscribed from the spam I get. I mostly ignore it.
Mostly ignore it
Gotta gamble sometimes since the odds that there are truly milfs in the area is never 0.
I moved my personal email domain to fastmail. I’ve been very happy with it. I am using the Standard plan at $50 per year.
It’s nice being the customer instead of the product.
They can also host static web sites for no additional cost on this plan. So I canceled my web hosting plan too.
I’ll be checking this out later, thanks for sharing!
That’s a terrible idea, as all your registered accounts on that mail address are now just one minimum wage customer service worker away from getting intercepted by a hacker. Just getting dns redirected is enough.
Edit; Misread. Though you were selfhosting email.
I like K-9 (soon to be Thunderbird)
Change to protonmail and move away from google altogether.
Or Fastmail
I’m slowly beginning the process of moving to Proton Mail. Staying with the free account for now, but really want to get away from Gmail.
Same, for this reason.
That’s an email client. Do you have a email provider you like that is compatible with it?
Mailbox.org is pretty nice, I’ve been using it since a few months now, because it’s compatible with basically all email clients (unlike protonmail) and they have a very cheap plan too.
Using it for almost 3 years now, it’s great. Together with K9-Mail ofc!
Thanks for sharing, I am seriously considering it. I just have a hard time justifying the purchase to myself. I kinda worry that I am just acting on a somewhat emotional fear of being watched.
Understandable, just give the decision some time and you’ll know what’s best.
Gmail works with it.
But Gmail could technically pump the same ads over IMAP if they wanted to.
Technically it’s not the same, in case of IMAP they would need to literally put spam mails into your account. As opposed to having visual elements in the UI that pretend to be an email. Might not feel like a big difference but actively poisoning the users inbox is pretty bad.
Yeah, while technically possible, I don’t see that happening for the exact reason you said. 👍
I mean…they know what you like it seems
Interestingly enough, no. I do like anime, though, so maybe they made that assumption.
Something something if you’re not paying for it then you are the product
There are ads in Gmail?
Google knows what you like and these days they will take any ad because they fired all the screening staff. My ads are usually pretty average since I opt out of everything I possibly can opt out of and I use Startpage for search, so they aren’t as targeted. That’s one positive thing about Google. They started as a relatively ethical company for an ad company, so there’s a lot of code and best practices in place for opting out of things. That is fading, but it’s way better than others. Like Facebook showing ads for things I searched for a few seconds ago on Amazon and stuff like that.
You can disable this…
Yep, I just looked it up and did that! Thanks!
this should be more than mildly infuriating to you.
You might want to ditch google for something like proton if you can, and if you can’t use Thunderbird to view your emails.
the ads only appear in the “Promotions/Ads” tab, which is an email category for junk and ads. (ones that don’t include any useful information but come from legitimate companies and don’t qualify for the “Spam” tab)
It CAN be disabled (together with the whole sorting feature, which is spyware anyway (enabling it automatically grants google permission to look at your emails))
and also i think the decision to add their own ads there is actually pretty clever lol.Yep, and so you know there’s a lot to complain about if Google, that decision is not one of them .
It would be clever if they fit and I might actually click on them.
Honestly, I did the whole “inbox filter tabs” thing a long time ago, and it was real useful before when I had a few spammy, usually “news letter” or “promotion” email that I might use. But at this point it’s just where the email I don’t really want but don’t want to deal with go to die.
I appreciate the info, though, and I’ve already turned it off, but I might just turn it back on because idgaf about the ads really since I barely look at that tab/section of my mail anyway. At his point, I’m prolly just going to go to proton mail for now and just update my email with my important contacts. I’ve been trying to get away from Google for a while, I just haven’t had the time to complete the transition on all services.
I definitely need to make that switch, and I’ve been “in the process” of making the switch for a while.
I will take your advice about Thunderbird because my work email is gmail only.
laughs in tuta
nota.
you seeing this @Tutanota@mastodon.social?That’s payable for better function from data and storage. Respect is the product.
Like youtube giving me ad’s for programs basically flat out saying ‘use our app to make porn of your friends’
Spark Mail (ignore the “AI Email” thing in the store listing, it’s not intrusive or even a major part of the features) is a nice app and works with multiple providers. It even syncs which accounts you have added across devices.
It’s… okay. I’ve been using it a lot, and at first it was claiming to be the spiritual successor to Google Inbox. I feel that, but it’s also not that. I can’t put my finger on it but it feels like it’s evolving too fast and I just want its features to settle down so I know what I’m getting.
User an ad blocker like everybody else
Suggestion for iOS?
Use private dns on your wifi settings and input dns.adguard.com into the dns setting. Sometimes this can cause connection problems tho. It’s a bit hard overall to block stuff on iOS, too strict of an OS
