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>Please don't be rude.

[0]: "Google publicly announced in 2017 it would stop using Gmail content for ad targeting but continued to scan emails for spam, malware, and other non-ad functionality, which leaves room for ambiguity about downstream uses of metadata or other signals"

Who cares why Google is reading your emails? Not me.

Oh, it's just for non-ad functionality? In that case, go right ahead!

Ugh!

[0] https://factually.co/fact-checks/technology/email-scanning-f...

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You're upset Gmail blocks spam and malware?

>Please don't be rude.



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