Looks at the ad in my Gmail

The only "mildly infuriating" part about this is the stray mark you made on the screenshot.

The other stuff -- the offensive ad and the abuse of Grace Hopper's name -- is more than "mildly."

I've used Gmail since 2005 and don't ever remember seeing ads, but then again I use ad blockers on pretty much all my devices.

Maybe using a free email account offered by an ad company wasn't such a good idea after all.

I moved my personal email domain to fastmail. I've been very happy with it. I am using the Standard plan at $50 per year.

It's nice being the customer instead of the product.

They can also host static web sites for no additional cost on this plan. So I canceled my web hosting plan too.

Okay, but the rest of these emails also look like advertising spam...

I'm more concerned that they reanimated a 30-years-dead Rear Admiral, a founding mother of computer science, and assigned her to help your job search.

B-movie premise: the dead rise and the capitalists realize that they're cheaper labour than the current precariat.

IIT: People who've never used Gmail complaining about how it's full of ads. They only appear in the "promotions" tab, which is where Gmail sends stuff that's already borderline spam. In other words you don't see ads unless you go looking for them.

I mean...they know what you like it seems

I like K-9 (soon to be Thunderbird)

• https://k9mail.app/

I don't see anyone else here recommending K-9 Mail for Android, and I think that's sad because it's really good. Open source, supports viewing message headers, multi-account, hides remote images by default to prevent tracking...

There are ads in Gmail?

Something something if you're not paying for it then you are the product

Google knows what you like and these days they will take any ad because they fired all the screening staff. My ads are usually pretty average since I opt out of everything I possibly can opt out of and I use Startpage for search, so they aren't as targeted. That's one positive thing about Google. They started as a relatively ethical company for an ad company, so there's a lot of code and best practices in place for opting out of things. That is fading, but it's way better than others. Like Facebook showing ads for things I searched for a few seconds ago on Amazon and stuff like that.

Looks like someone fat fingered while cropping. It happens to everyone.

this should be more than mildly infuriating to you.

You might want to ditch google for something like proton if you can, and if you can't use Thunderbird to view your emails.

You can disable this..

Use a different email client. I use Samsung Email, but that's (of course) only on Samsung.

A good FOSS client would be FairEmail though.

Get a paid email service, it costs next to nothing and you retain your privacy. Free services hosted by commercial entities are free for a reason.

laughs in tutanota.
you seeing this @Tutanota@mastodon.social?

Like youtube giving me ad's for programs basically flat out saying 'use our app to make porn of your friends'

So how was the service?

Spark Mail (ignore the "AI Email" thing in the store listing, it's not intrusive or even a major part of the features) is a nice app and works with multiple providers. It even syncs which accounts you have added across devices.

They've been doing that for years now.

User an ad blocker like everybody else