Google is putting ads in gmail. WTF?
Google is putting ads in gmail. WTF?
Why would anyone use this over Proton Mail or the gazillion alternatives if it treats people like shit.
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Gmail has had ads for at least a decade.
They’ve only recently started making the ads look like unread emails to try to trick you into clicking them.
Nah they been doing that for years too.
Ublock origin
That’s not an option for the mobile app.
k9 mail
Outlook been doing it awhile, so cheap and shitty.
Been noticing it at least for the past couple years.
Not saying its new. Just was surprised. They probably don't make much from it. Why put it in for a couple pennies (on a corporate level). I didn't think they were that greedy. I honestly hadn't seen this before because I rarely use gmail and have never used the promotions tab.
A couple of pennies time a Billion users is a lot of pennies.
It is probably way less than a penny per user per day.
We learned this from meta didn't we? A user is worth about $15 a month?
I don't even know if this is true, but I'd love to know more.
Maybe we're worth £4 a month, but they just decided to pull a higher price out of their ass to dissuade everyone from paying.
I suspect the small amount of people who decide to pay will cost more in infrastructure, and causes more headaches to meta anyway.
No we didn't. We learned they were required to offer an 'ad tracking free' experience and that they priced it at $15/month. As that experience only exists as a result of a law suit - we have no idea what a user is worth.
Because they were limited by what they could charge to 'sounds reasonable' and 'unlikely to cause further lawsuits'
Ads in those categories aren't a couple of pennies. Those are upwards of $45-$50 per click! Possibly even more since they're disguised to look like emails.