GMail Is Officially Useless

[GMac2021]

I have been using GMail, Youtube and Google since day one. Even though I have had my doubts about Google since they went public, I have continued to use their "services" out of laziness.

 

Recently I noticed that GMail would feed me advertising based on private encrypted emails from my bank, from Canada Revenue Agency (I am self-employed, so we have a lot of communications....), and from my credit card companies. These emails are supposed to be secure and "private", yet Google has no problem feeding me targeted advertisements based on encrypted personal emails.

 

WTF?

 

Today I log in to GMail and find that my credit card information is listed under "social".

 

Someone needs to stop this corrupt joke of a company.

[Ark of Truth]

Don't complain here about it, complain to Google.....

[jbezorg]

Google Opt out Ads Help

[Ashal]

"Recently" ...?

 

Day one of gmail they said they scanned emails for the purpose targeted ads, and that nothing is saved from that scanning nor is anybody reading them.

 

Google is an advertising company, they've always been upfront about that, and there is ways to opt out of targeted ads. This should be news to nobody.

[AKM]

Yep.  Agree wholeheartedly with the title of this one.  I've given up on them after at least two email accounts were lost due to their unwillingness to talk to my reserve email provider so I could recover my password.  Oh well.  So long, folks.

[lordofthedread]

Like any free email provider doesnt do the same ... the only difference is how Google is upfront about it and thats personally what I like.

 

There is no privacy anymore, if you believe that there still is while using internet, smartphones, credit cards and so on you're obviously a fool.

[LordJerle]

Not only that, but there's also a "Send do not track request" option in Google Chrome's privacy settings.  What it basically does is send the distributor of tracking cookies (what every targeted advertising service uses) a request to to kill the tracking cookie upon receipt.  On top of that, once you close your browser, it traces the cookies and deletes them.  Some services, such as Facebook, use a different system for tracking cookies, which integrates itself into the login cookie.  However, you can block that function as well with incognito mode in the ad blocker extension, which basically makes it so the only thing the cookie logs is your habits within Facebook FOR Facebook, which is futile on the site's part, as the ads are blocked with the extension anyway.  There's noting to stop your ISP from sending your usage statistics to PRISM via the direct backdoor line that most of the major broadband providers in the states have provided, but hey, if the CIA and NSA wanna see how much porn I watch, good for them.