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by ChrisRR 2030 days ago
Anything you do on google is training their AI for free. Do you think they're offering you free email out of the kindness of their hearts?
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grishka 2030 days ago
Don't they sell ads in the web UI like many other free email providers do?
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arp242 2030 days ago
And they sell the business accounts; because so many people are used to gmail for their personal accounts, quite a few companies are paying for that.
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kwhitefoot 2030 days ago
I use gmail but I never see ads because I always use a non-Google mail client. (Thunderbird on Windows and Linux), SimpleEmail on Android.
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viraptor 2029 days ago
You're an edge case and a rounding error. Enough people use the web UI and the Gmail app that they likely don't care about other users.
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