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Re:Alphabet announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2019 re... by mehrdada on Monday February 03, 2020 @09:48PM (#22231881)
> Gmail is no longer used

Any evidence of that? Enterprise GSuite is not supposedly used, but consumer Gmail not feeding into ads would be surprising to me. Android feeds location and contacts data.

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Re:Alphabet announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2019 re... by subb on Monday February 03, 2020 @10:23PM (#22232060)
Not much evidence, but they stopped reading emails to target ads a while ago. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-23/google-wi...

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en

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Re:Alphabet announces fourth quarter and fiscal year 2019 re... by mehrdada on Monday February 03, 2020 @11:14PM (#22232327)
Thanks. That's insightful.
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