Why would anyone use this over Proton Mail or the gazillion alternatives if it treats people like shit.

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    11 months ago

    The only way to disable them is to disable the inbox sorting setting (where it sorts primary, promotional, and social). As it is, it only puts adds in the promotional inbox. The worst thing is, i swear it knows where your mouse is and re sorts your emails so an ad lands right below your mouse, increasing the number of ad clicks and the ad revenue. I’ve had this happen to be multiple times.

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      11 months ago

      Yep, first thing I do whenever I add an account to Gmail is disable inbox sorting — presto, zero ads. This has been going on for years, but if OP just made a new Gmail account for the first time since 2013ish, it could be the first time they’ve seen the ads. Feels bad.

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      11 months ago

      That’s called a dark pattern, and Google has been gaining a reputation for using them. I totally believe it

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      11 months ago

      If they were really doing this it’d probably be considered fraud.

      Clicks need to be real and organic and placing something so a person accidentally clicks it intentionally when they sell the ads would be fraudulent.

      But good luck proving it if so.

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        11 months ago

        If you have a Gmail account with promotional emails, go into your promotional inbox and just mouse around a little bit near the top 10 emails. You’ll most likely see it move the ads around