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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by andybak on Friday June 23, 2017 @05:51PM (#14623061)
They could but is it worth it?

I suspect the scanning of emails hasn't yielded the personalization once hoped. And the bad publicity outweighs any future potential.

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Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads by Steko on Friday June 23, 2017 @07:25PM (#14623497)
I just think the dollars aren't there: (1) email itself is fading vs text and various social media and (2) 98% of the population reads 98% of their email through the generic mail app on their phones that doesn't display Google's ads anyway.
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