![]() ![]() Add Google Search and it already knows so much about you that scanning your emails may well be superfluous. Google has the world’s largest known tracking system, thanks partly to Google Analytics – which is used on far more websites than any Facebook tracker – and its DoubleClick advertising business. ![]() As Alex Hern explained here, “the adverts will now be targeted in the same way as other Google services, based on information gleaned from other activity on users’ profiles, such as their searches, browsing activity, and even physical locations”. That didn’t mean you would get adverts picked at random. That changed last summer, when Google announced that it would no longer scan emails to tailor adverts. You could only avoid it by using a paid-for version of the service. When Google launched Gmail in 2004, it did indeed scan your emails for advertising purposes. Google’s email service, Gmail, no longer scans the contents of your communications for targeting ads. ![]()
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