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

    I’ve never in my life seen an ad in Gmail mobile app in-line as though it were something in your inbox. I get really frustrated at the indignance over “ad company does ads and you’re mad” as if there’s not a difference when things get escalated.

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      11 months ago

      It’s under the promotions tab. Been that way for a while. I just don’t use that tab myself so I don’t see it often.

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      11 months ago

      They’ve been picking up the density, for sure. I think adblock has also frequently worked on the webUI if you’ve used firefox, i’m not sure if they’ve updated it to get around ublock.

      FAANG and the other high-cap tech companies have been cashing in on their market dominance these last few quarters - they’re all getting bad. That’s not a good sign if you’re an average joe; it means you’ll be bombarded with tracking and ads (even more than now) AND I think it’s a bad sign for market stability. People have been predicting another recession for a while, but that signal is getting louder I think.

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      They started putting ads in the mobile app a while ago. I think I first noticed a couple years ago? I had been using Inbox until that got shut down, then used the web UI for the most part. I’ve tried a few other app options, but the only one I like is $10/mo just for the UI. Not even a full email address, just a UI for Gmail.

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        11 months ago

        I switched to spark when inbox got decomed works well for me. I’m sure they also sell my data but so did google