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Re:Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Ad... by wodenokoto on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @02:14PM (#17861300)
What is the monetisation scheme of Gmail now? Just a free enticement to buy the G-suite?
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Re:Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Ad... by jazzyjackson on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @02:31PM (#17861487)
Going by the uncanny-valley accuracy of their suggested auto-replies, they're training their natural language neural nets with every message sent over their wires.
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Re:Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Ad... by soared on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @04:04PM (#17862367)
They still have ads for the free version, just not based on your emails.
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