Google is stopping one of the most controversial advertising formats: ads inside Gmail that scan users’ email contents. The decision didn’t come from Google’s ad team, but from its cloud unit, which is angling to sign up more corporate customers.
At this point in time we have already collected unough information about our customers through their most personal emails and have noticed new emails aren’t adding anything to our models any more
You think they’d do it out of decency… nope.
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It’s not that nobody seems to care; it’s that people embrace it if it makes their lives more convenient.
Now they’d do it for the nsa