Re:Choose whether Search can show you personal results based...
by jvolkman on Saturday July 24, 2021 @10:10AM
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Were there people that thought the latter? Certainly there's still an expectation that things like spam filtering work, which require scanning.
Re:Choose whether Search can show you personal results based...
by mgraczyk on Saturday July 24, 2021 @11:58AM
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There is a search bar in Gmail that can be used to search the content of your emails. I think most technical people who have used Gmail realize that it wouldn't be possible for that feature to work without something, somewhere reading your emails to index them.
> Personal results in Search include... Personal answers based on info in your Google Account, like “my flights” from Gmail
...makes some aggressively ambiguous wording in a previous announcement [0] apparent...
> Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change.
So I guess anyone who assumed that "Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization" meant that your Gmail was not being scanned at all was mistaken, since today's setting implies that it was still being scanned for Search personalization?
[0] https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...