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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by throwaway2048 on Friday June 23, 2017 @01:54PM (#14621201)
Out of curiosity do you work in advertising tech or marketing?

They are about the only people I've ever seen express this view seriously.

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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by oh_sigh on Friday June 23, 2017 @01:58PM (#14621240)
Nope - I am a developer working on a consumer oriented application with no advertisements.

I'm not trying to say that all ads give you that benefit - most are just a waste of screen space, compute and bandwidth.

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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by majewsky on Friday June 23, 2017 @04:29PM (#14622501)
Even if I agreed that some ads have benefit, the cost-benefit analysis (with costs including screen space, compute, bandwidth and the malware threat) still looks grim enough to justify adblocking IMO.
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