Re:Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
by yk on Thursday February 07, 2013 @06:55AM
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It is not, a spamfilter tries to understand if the message is legitimate, while an ad injection algorithm tries to understand the message to extract your interests from it. One of the algorithms is actually trying to extract privacy relevant information, while in the case of a spamfilter any such data is just coincidental.
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Re:Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
by StavrosK on Thursday February 07, 2013 @06:57AM
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So? Where's the breach? An algorithm knowing the subject of the message doesn't worry me, as long as all they do with it is display ads from the same broad category. If they're doing something they're not telling us, well, any other email provider could also be doing this.