Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads

Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by siliconc0w on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:30PM (#14621496)

I think there is some interesting middle ground where you could use machine learning to go from 'show only relevant ads' to 'show only ads you might actually click on with greater than .001 probability'. I guess this is like 'extreme' outlier detection but it'd be interesting to see what revenue the ads at the 'long tail' of likelihood generate anyway. My guess the bulk of it is from the standard high CPC stuff like Mortages and Insurance. Google says it does this but i'm not too sure - I've never intentionally clicked an adword and yet they're still shown to me.

Anyway this may solve the tragedy of the commons situation we're in now and allow us to move away from the technology war of ad blockers, ad blocker blockers, ad blocker blocker blockers, etc.

edit: removed comment on clarity of Gsuite vs Free due to downvote brigade.

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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by gpribeiro on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:34PM (#14621535)

> Paying Gmail users never received the email-scanning ads like the free version of the program, but some business customers were confused by the distinction and its privacy implications, said Diane Greene, Google’s senior vice president of cloud.

Google doesn't read e-mails from GSuite. So the change is to stop reading from Gmail's free accounts.

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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by DrewHintz on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:33PM (#14621521)

"Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change."

Original post: https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...

Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not on this.

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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by rory096 on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:32PM (#14621513)

Seems pretty clear to me. GSuite never had email scanning.

>Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud sells a package of office software, called G Suite, that competes with market leader Microsoft Corp. Paying Gmail users never received the email-scanning ads like the free version of the program, but some business customers were confused by the distinction and its privacy implications, said Diane Greene, Google’s senior vice president of cloud. “What we’re going to do is make it unambiguous,” she said.

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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by guyzero on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:33PM (#14621520)

Per Diane Greene's post, this has always been the case for GSuite and now consumer Gmail will catch up:

"Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change"

https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...

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