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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by roywiggins on Friday June 23, 2017 @01:47PM (#14621137)
That's just a rare side-effect, not the reason why the scanning happens, or why the ads are shown.
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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by oh_sigh on Friday June 23, 2017 @01:59PM (#14621248)
The ads are shown exactly for that reason. If the only ads shown were for products or services or information which the consumer was not interested in, then no one would pay for advertisements in the first place.
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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by coldpie on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:07PM (#14621314)
Apparently spreading malware is pretty high value, actually.
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