• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      They disabled context ads in Gmail years ago after backlash than e-mail senders never agreed to any data processing clauses.

      The AI craze is now the perfect reason to enable that shit again.

  • James R Kirk@startrek.website
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    22 days ago

    This may be a hot take but I think it’s a reasonable trade-off. It’s not enabled by default, and if you do want to use their (free) AI features on your data, they get to use that data to target ads.

    • Kokesh@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      Going through my 300+ thousand photos? Nope. Fuck google. I’m glad I moved to my Immich.