There is ads on gmail???
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023
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Apparently your adblocker is doing overtime
I think it's talking about emails in the Promotions tab with the word "ad" in a box at the beginning of the subject line.
Promotion tab?
Also, if I ever get an ad via mail, it will be immedetly reported as spam. Haven't seen any ads outside my spamfolder for quite awhile.
Gmail sorts email by tab. Click the triple lines and you'll see Primary, Promotions, and Social. Basically Gmail didn't like the word spam, so they named the folder promotions.
Mine doesn't do that.
Interesting, I've seen that on desktop and mobile app for nearly a decade.
Nevermind I found it under the "category" tab beneath the bin. I don't think I've ever clicked on that before. I just need Inbox/Sent/All Mail/Bin/Spam and my custom labels. Everything else is just clutter.
That's interesting, my labels and inbox, outbox etc are all underneath those
I believe you can choose to have those enabled or not. Edit: turns out this is exactly what the article tells you to do.
I've never seen any, but I only ever access it over IMAP.
There are ads in Gmail?
edit: i just disabled adblockers.... still no ads.. Genuinely confused
edit2: OK read the article and none of the settings where there. Just went into my alt gmail account, and I have the ads and the settings mentioned in the article. I guess my main gmail account is so old (2010?) it does not have these features
Gmail android app had ads for me.
I'm pretty sure they're talking about the subtle ad disguised as an email in the promotions tab, its not even from someone I wouldn't expect to send me an email, that's why it's so sneaky. It's literally a promotion from a company whose emails I'm subscribed to.
I've never seen Gmail ads but I also disabled these tabs as soon as they appeared so...
Yeah, I was confused "People get ads in Gmail?!" and then I remembered that shit bugged me way back, so I disabled them too.
Apparently I either already did this so many years ago that I don't remember doing it, or my account is so old (2006) that it predates these settings being added and they defaulted to "off" when added to existing accounts.
Email is something where it can be worth a few currency units per yr for a fast / privacy focused email account that doesn’t contribute to your metadata profile.
Proton is free. They only have Proton ads. And they also force ads into your outgoing emails.
That is cool. However, for a few bucks a month, one can get an email that is 100% private & fast. Email is worth outsourcing.