Why would anyone use this over Proton Mail or the gazillion alternatives if it treats people like shit.
I'm thinking the mobile users are in the worst spot for this. For desktop all this random spam goes into its own tab that I never look at.
Alas, the spam in my "real" google inbox is all my fault. Shouldn't have gave substack my email address.
I'm a mobile user and our Gmail is separated into "Primary emails" which is the stuff we really want to see, and "promotions/ spam" which are all the advertisements. that is what OP took a screenshot of. The second one. I don't know why he's just seeing this for the first time and thinks that it's something new. It's been like this since the birth of gmail.
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Yeah, I knew about that this year, so many ads and comparing with other alternatives it's like... lol
This is why, if you need to use gmail, you never use the official app. Just use a different client, anf you at least bypass this specific bullshit
Windows is phasing out the built in mail app which is basic but decent…forcing “upgrade” to Outlook which has ads if you’re not a paid user.
thunderbird just got a major upgrade with new aesthetics.
I don't understand why there are so many surprised people in this thread. They've been doing this for a pretty long time now. Yahoo has been doing it for even longer.
Unless this is just people being fake surprised as a joke?
Since it's inception in fact. That's what made it free to use.
honestly, just use a mail client. on Android I use k9. on desktop, thunderbird.
Vouching for FairEmail. It's by far my favourite mail client. It's material design and very safe cause it strips out all images by default or only tracking images if you choose.
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