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

Gmail has had ads for at least a decade.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    They’ve only recently started making the ads look like unread emails to try to trick you into clicking them.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not saying its new. Just was surprised. They probably don't make much from it. Why put it in for a couple pennies (on a corporate level). I didn't think they were that greedy. I honestly hadn't seen this before because I rarely use gmail and have never used the promotions tab.

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

    A couple of pennies time a Billion users is a lot of pennies.

    It is probably way less than a penny per user per day.

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

    We learned this from meta didn't we? A user is worth about $15 a month?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I don't even know if this is true, but I'd love to know more.

    Maybe we're worth £4 a month, but they just decided to pull a higher price out of their ass to dissuade everyone from paying.

    I suspect the small amount of people who decide to pay will cost more in infrastructure, and causes more headaches to meta anyway.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    No we didn't. We learned they were required to offer an 'ad tracking free' experience and that they priced it at $15/month. As that experience only exists as a result of a law suit - we have no idea what a user is worth.

    Because they were limited by what they could charge to 'sounds reasonable' and 'unlikely to cause further lawsuits'

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