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Google is putting ads in gmail. WTF? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Why would anyone use this over Proton Mail or the gazillion alternatives if it treats people like shit.

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[–] 152 points 2 years ago (3 children)

These ads only appear in the "promotions" section of Gmail, the section that is by definition for advertising emails. It's not great, but this is the least intrusive place to put ads.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Whoa, there's remotely tech-savvy people who don't turn off 100% of that "new" inbox sorting stuff? Color me surprised.

    That Social/Updates/Promotion shit is absolutely trash shit garbage useless. It does nothing to improve email experience. It exists to serve you ads.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    As someone who enjoyed Google Inbox before they killed it, it hurts to read this comment.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I loved Inbox. I hate everything that was supposed to replace it. Spark isn't the worst thing in the world, but it's not nearly as smart. Shortwave may be ok but my only IOS device isn't set up to receive email and I haven't bothered to try it since the Android app is new. Gmail is terrible. Outlook is Outlook.

    Inbox worked in a way that my brain immediately understood and adapted to.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I used Inbox too, and also liked it.

    But these gmail features aren't remotely like inbox. They hide the emails behind alternate tabs. Ones you cannot configure yourself. With nearly no indication instead of putting them front and center (but grouped together). They make it harder to see and understand your inbox instead of easier. This post being a perfect example -- tons of people didn't even understand what was going on because of how awful the feature is.

    Inbox was killed and its main features lost with it. They were not folded into gmail.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    What I do is I create rules with which I tag emails and auto archive them. This moves them to "folders" in a way I decide and removes them from the inbox. They all are still in the all mail tab.

    I also archive all the mail after processing it so that "clear the inbox" feeling that Inbox had is not lost.

    I still prefer Inbox to Gmail but I emulated all the features I used.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's weird, I feel like it does improve my experience. I like how it categorizes my emails.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, there's like three tabs there I don't need to look at.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    You can turn on and off tabs. But if you turn them on, you're going to get ads.

    I've been getting these ads for months now, and am slowly working on moving to proton/k9. I imgine it's going to suck getting similar filters set up for my mail, though.

    2023 is easily the worst year in the history of the internet, every big company can go fuck itself imo

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Never noticed an ad in the Primary tab. They appear in the others. I genuinely never look there as it's just three extra tabs of spam I don't need to see.

    If any of my wanted email is there, I guess I'll see it when I use the search function. That also doesn't have ads. So far.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Shit I was confused I’ve never seen this, but I assume I am have all that turned off. Still moving away from gmail though. Protonmail, mentioned by someone else, is what im using, but I think having your own domain and just having someone host the data is probably the best bet

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I agree with you 100%. That's what I did. Registered a domain for 10 years, and use the free version of Zoho mail. It may or may not be enough, depending on if you regularly clean your emails or not, since each of the allowed 5 users gets only 5GB of storage space. There are plenty of alternatives out there to do this, all of them with their pros and cons.

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