Google literally giving me sex talk lines.
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You can disable this…
Yep, I just looked it up and did that! Thanks!
How, I just looked through the settings in the app and couldn’t see where?
I had to do it for the wife after I noticed she had them too. I have never seen it in any of my personal Gmail accounts.
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.
Fairmail is good. My issue with it is that the F-Froid version did not work with my provider, so I’ve been using k-9 mail instead.
It’s also foss, and the F-Droid version works with my provider. It’s really nice and fully featured.
FairyMail? Sounds interesting
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.
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.
I already did. No change after several years.
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.yeah it’s only in the subfolders which are bullshit anyways so it’s no surprise longtime users opted out of that as soon as it came along
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.
Literally everyone on Lemmy is 38 years old
Hey! I’m 37!
I was just informed that I’m actually 37…
Can confirm. Am exactly 38 years old…
Happy birthday!
I am 38.25739 years old!
Just hit 38.0027
It’s all downhill from here
*Quietly* I am not :(
I’m over here telling myself that 50 is the new 38…
Uh oh, I’ll be 39 next week, does that mean I need to leave?
Also 04 was still the closed beta I think. Just not super closes. Got an invite from my friend back then
Yeah, I think I got an invite from a friend on a forum I frequented.
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.
“This has been linked with major mass political developments including the Brexit referendum in the UK, and the presidency of Donald Trump in the US”
Bingo.
Maybe using a free email account offered by an ad company wasn’t such a good idea after all.
Something something if you’re not paying for it then you are the product
I’m not paying for firefox though…
That’s not an exception. Librewolf is.
Are you paying for Librewolf? I’m not sure what you meant to say.
He means with Firefox, you’re still the product.
But no
Eh, by default FF has a bunch of telemetry enabled. Nowhere near as bad as the others, but Librewolf has that all disabled out of the box.
Surely the telemetry only consists of stuff that they use to give back to the community? Usage data to drive innovation?
I might be naive, but that’s how I imagine it.
Selling usage data to google. Yeah. Definately.
As per Librewolf it’s not business product.
Free is not at no cost but rather Free as in Freedom. Production may but paid for but request or donation but it is even then still not a business product. It is not a capitalist product. Free is Freedom truly in this sense even though production may cost money in this capitalist tyrrany. Cost is, again, by choice, pursuit/desire of particularity by a nonprogrammer, or donation.
Surely Mozilla was built like that but google bought it is in a certainly assassination objective. No doubt. That’s the whole fucking point of this thread’s post and observation. Y’all fucking quick about it.
It’s a stupid saying popular with self righteous people.
Looks like someone fat fingered while cropping. It happens to everyone.
laughs in tuta
nota.
you seeing this @[email protected]?That’s payable for better function from data and storage. Respect is the product.
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.
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 mean…they know what you like it seems
Interestingly enough, no. I do like anime, though, so maybe they made that assumption.
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.
just use uBlock Origin. It’s that easy.
That… doesn’t work in the Gmail app. I have it installed on both desktop and mobile Firefox though. ✌️
k-9 is a mozilla project now. thunderbird always has been.
Yeah I heard of it just today, looking to set it up and try it out some time. 👍
Do you get the super creepy ‘easten European girls are popular because of their traditional values…’ and the I’ve that’s ‘Chinese women want to come and study in but need loving middle aged men to have sex with them while they’re here…’ I’m paraphraseing of course but that’s basically what they say.
Makes me laugh when everything is sanitized because advertiser’s don’t want to appear next to anything untoward then the adverts are for human traffickers.
Though honestly the ‘student was expelled for inventing a more efficient heater’ advert is possibly worse, of course he was expelled he broke the laws of physics, he should have been arrested! Why is such an obvious scam allowed but a friendly Australian can’t call his cobba a cunt?
I do rarely use Gmail on my phone, but those probably showed up in some form of another at some point, lol
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If I chose to.
They’ve been doing that for years now.
Never seen a single ad in my gmail app.
So how was the service?
Have you ever tried to chat with 1000+ girls at the same time. F*in nightmare.
Really? I could take it
Also it turns out I speak zero of the languages in Asia.
All you need is to use Google translate for “Do you want green card?” and you can have your pick of the litter until a little while after she gets her citizenship. Make sure to get a prenup!
I speak two of them and also English which is the lingua franca.
Did not help me talk to a 1000+ at all.
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.
I like K-9 (soon to be Thunderbird)
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!
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. 👍
Change to protonmail and move away from google altogether.
Or maybe choose something that isn’t such a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Yeah, they have more than five users, they must be hiding something. It’s only logical.
Which are you claiming to be the wolf? It was just a little bit ambiguous for me.
Proton Mail is not a service that can be trusted and it is fairly expensive
Why can’t it be trusted? Can any service be trusted? I’m not going to host my own email service. 💀
They promote proprietary software in the form of JavaScript and they claim encryption and 100% privacy for a protocol that isn’t secure or designed to be secure.
What does this claim look like? I mean, I’ll bite if all they claim is that they offer 100 % privacy from their end, so they don’t do anything with my data. That’s good enough for me.
And promoting proprietary software in the form of JavaScript, is that an inherently bad thing apart from being proprietary?
Just curious because you seem rather emphatic about this so I’d like to know more about your thoughts, since I am a potential customer.
Absolutely proprietary!
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.
Or Fastmail
Exactly, I don’t trust a free email service 😂
