Google literally giving me sex talk lines.
Something something if you’re not paying for it then you are the product
I’m not paying for firefox though…
That’s not an exception. Librewolf is.
Are you paying for Librewolf? I’m not sure what you meant to say.
He means with Firefox, you’re still the product.
But no
Selling usage data to google. Yeah. Definately.
As per Librewolf it’s not business product.
Free is not at no cost but rather Free as in Freedom. Production may but paid for but request or donation but it is even then still not a business product. It is not a capitalist product. Free is Freedom truly in this sense even though production may cost money in this capitalist tyrrany. Cost is, again, by choice, pursuit/desire of particularity by a nonprogrammer, or donation.
Surely Mozilla was built like that but google bought it is in a certainly assassination objective. No doubt. That’s the whole fucking point of this thread’s post and observation. Y’all fucking quick about it.
Eh, by default FF has a bunch of telemetry enabled. Nowhere near as bad as the others, but Librewolf has that all disabled out of the box.
It’s a stupid saying popular with self righteous people.
User an ad blocker like everybody else
pretty sure that’s the official app
https://blokada.org/ Give it a go.
Suggestion for iOS?
Use private dns on your wifi settings and input dns.adguard.com into the dns setting. Sometimes this can cause connection problems tho. It’s a bit hard overall to block stuff on iOS, too strict of an OS
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.
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.
Never seen a single ad in my gmail app.
So how was the service?
Have you ever tried to chat with 1000+ girls at the same time. F*in nightmare.
Also it turns out I speak zero of the languages in Asia.
All you need is to use Google translate for “Do you want green card?” and you can have your pick of the litter until a little while after she gets her citizenship. Make sure to get a prenup!
I speak two of them and also English which is the lingua franca.
Did not help me talk to a 1000+ at all.
Okay, but the rest of these emails also look like advertising spam…
Fair, it’s been a long while since I’ve unsubscribed from the spam I get. I mostly ignore it.
Mostly ignore it
Gotta gamble sometimes since the odds that there are truly milfs in the area is never 0.
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.
What alternative(s) to gmail you’d recommend?
Spark for Android. EMclient for desktop. Both have combined inboxes.
I definitely need to make that switch, and I’ve been “in the process” of making the switch for a while.
I will take your advice about Thunderbird because my work email is gmail only.
thunderbird should connect to gmail too :)
the ads only appear in the “Promotions/Ads” tab, which is an email category for junk and ads. (ones that don’t include any useful information but come from legitimate companies and don’t qualify for the “Spam” tab)
It CAN be disabled (together with the whole sorting feature, which is spyware anyway (enabling it automatically grants google permission to look at your emails))
and also i think the decision to add their own ads there is actually pretty clever lol.It would be clever if they fit and I might actually click on them.
Honestly, I did the whole “inbox filter tabs” thing a long time ago, and it was real useful before when I had a few spammy, usually “news letter” or “promotion” email that I might use. But at this point it’s just where the email I don’t really want but don’t want to deal with go to die.
I appreciate the info, though, and I’ve already turned it off, but I might just turn it back on because idgaf about the ads really since I barely look at that tab/section of my mail anyway. At his point, I’m prolly just going to go to proton mail for now and just update my email with my important contacts. I’ve been trying to get away from Google for a while, I just haven’t had the time to complete the transition on all services.
Yep, and so you know there’s a lot to complain about if Google, that decision is not one of them .
You can disable this…
Yep, I just looked it up and did that! Thanks!
How, I just looked through the settings in the app and couldn’t see where?
I had to do it for the wife after I noticed she had them too. I have never seen it in any of my personal Gmail accounts.
Like youtube giving me ad’s for programs basically flat out saying ‘use our app to make porn of your friends’
Use a different email client. I use Samsung Email, but that’s (of course) only on Samsung.
A good FOSS client would be Fair email though.
FairyMail? Sounds interesting
Fairmail is good. My issue with it is that the F-Froid version did not work with my provider, so I’ve been using k-9 mail instead.
It’s also foss, and the F-Droid version works with my provider. It’s really nice and fully featured.
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.
Amazon sharing data with Facebook? I kinda doubt that.
Facebook has crawlers that follow you around the web. It’s not that Amazon is sharing info, it’s that Facebook is tracking your browsing history (if you let it).
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…
laughs in tuta
nota.
you seeing this @Tutanota@mastodon.social?That’s payable for better function from data and storage. Respect is the product.
I mean…they know what you like it seems
Interestingly enough, no. I do like anime, though, so maybe they made that assumption.
If OP has personalized ads even ebaled.
The times I turned off personalized ads, were the times google ads went really wild. This was both for regular website ads as well as youtube ads. So many cosmetic product ads…
I had to turn it back on again because they were at least partly interesting compared to “SiCk oF aCnE?! sIcK of pImPleS??!”
You guys get ads?
If I chose to.
Yeah, I have turned off personalized ads and I mostly get these inappropriate dating ads. I guess it’s their way of annoying me into enabling personalization.
Do you get the super creepy ‘easten European girls are popular because of their traditional values…’ and the I’ve that’s ‘Chinese women want to come and study in but need loving middle aged men to have sex with them while they’re here…’ I’m paraphraseing of course but that’s basically what they say.
Makes me laugh when everything is sanitized because advertiser’s don’t want to appear next to anything untoward then the adverts are for human traffickers.
Though honestly the ‘student was expelled for inventing a more efficient heater’ advert is possibly worse, of course he was expelled he broke the laws of physics, he should have been arrested! Why is such an obvious scam allowed but a friendly Australian can’t call his cobba a cunt?
just use uBlock Origin. It’s that easy.
That… doesn’t work in the Gmail app. I have it installed on both desktop and mobile Firefox though. ✌️
k-9 is a mozilla project now. thunderbird always has been.
