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."
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.
I have seen it on the gmail app only so far.
And not in the main mail box but in subfolders.
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)
Maybe using a free email account offered by an ad company wasn't such a good idea after all.
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!
Okay, but the rest of these emails also look like advertising spam...
I'm more concerned that they reanimated a 30-years-dead Rear Admiral, a founding mother of computer science, and assigned her to help your job search.
B-movie premise: the dead rise and the capitalists realize that they're cheaper labour than the current precariat.
IIT: People who've never used Gmail complaining about how it's full of ads. They only appear in the "promotions" tab, which is where Gmail sends stuff that's already borderline spam. In other words you don't see ads unless you go looking for them.
I mean...they know what you like it seems
If OP has personalized ads even enabled.
The times I turned off personalized ads, were the times google ads went really wild. This was both for regular website ads as well as youtube ads. So many cosmetic product ads...
I had to turn it back on again because they were at least partly interesting compared to "SiCk oF aCnE?! sIcK of pImPleS??!"
Yeah, I have turned off personalized ads and I mostly get these inappropriate dating ads. I guess it's their way of annoying me into enabling personalization.
I like K-9 (soon to be Thunderbird)
Change to protonmail and move away from google altogether.
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.
That's an email client. Do you have a email provider you like that is compatible with it?
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.
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.
I don't see anyone else here recommending K-9 Mail for Android, and I think that's sad because it's really good. Open source, supports viewing message headers, multi-account, hides remote images by default to prevent tracking...
Something something if you're not paying for it then you are the product
There are ads in Gmail?
They're in the "promotions" tab.
which
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.
Looks like someone fat fingered while cropping. It happens to everyone.
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.
Use a different email client. I use Samsung Email, but that's (of course) only on Samsung.
A good FOSS client would be FairEmail though.
FairyMail? Sounds interesting
Get a paid email service, it costs next to nothing and you retain your privacy. Free services hosted by commercial entities are free for a reason.
Like youtube giving me ad's for programs basically flat out saying 'use our app to make porn of your friends'
So how was the service?
Have you ever tried to chat with 1000+ girls at the same time. F*in nightmare.
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