Why would anyone use this over Proton Mail or the gazillion alternatives if it treats people like shit.
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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These ads only appear in the "promotions" section of Gmail, the section that is by definition for advertising emails. It's not great, but this is the least intrusive place to put ads.
Whoa, there's remotely tech-savvy people who don't turn off 100% of that "new" inbox sorting stuff? Color me surprised.
That Social/Updates/Promotion shit is absolutely trash shit garbage useless. It does nothing to improve email experience. It exists to serve you ads.
That's weird, I feel like it does improve my experience. I like how it categorizes my emails.
Yeah, there's like three tabs there I don't need to look at.
You can turn on and off tabs. But if you turn them on, you're going to get ads.
I've been getting these ads for months now, and am slowly working on moving to proton/k9. I imgine it's going to suck getting similar filters set up for my mail, though.
2023 is easily the worst year in the history of the internet, every big company can go fuck itself imo
Never noticed an ad in the Primary tab. They appear in the others. I genuinely never look there as it's just three extra tabs of spam I don't need to see.
If any of my wanted email is there, I guess I'll see it when I use the search function. That also doesn't have ads. So far.