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Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out (www.malwarebytes.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

I tried this and was no longer able to separate my email into Primary Updates and Promotions, and I started getting pings for every stupid ad. So I put it back. I think I'll start sending weird emails to myself; "teach your kids (the AI) to talk wrong."

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It did the same for me but I took it as an opportunity to wisely unsubscribe from all the crap in my gmail

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Yes you are wise. I have a couple gifts ordered from companies who have decided to bombard me with spam, but I need to track the order until it arrives and then I can block them.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    You can usually unsubscribe from the marketing emails and still get the tracking notifications if you don’t want to wait

    Edit: Also the ‘wisely’ was supposed to be ‘finally’ haha autocorrect needs to lay off the whiskey

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Just to add to this. Having a unsubscribe link in emails is a common way to trick ppl into clicking links, so if you do not know where the email comes from then just block it.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I just make judicious use of filters, especially if I don't know if the company will honor the unsubscribe preference or just use that to confirm my email.

    I have a number of emails and strings in filters that are an automatic delete because so many companies fucking spam shit constantly.

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