There is still no evidence that they are reading your emails so it's not the same. I am fine with ads, just as long as they don't mine my data and follow me around.
>I am fine with ads, just as long as they don't mine my data and follow me around.
Pretty much every ad platform out there does exactly that
Duckduckgo does not. Hacker News does not. There are many examples. Ads on blogs such as Daring Fireball and Coding Horror do not. I gladly whitelist these sites.
Sure there are fringe cases where it's not true. In substance ad platforms are now tracking & targeting mechanisms. That's the "value" they sell, not their ability to deliver ads.
Do Hacker News and Daring Fireball have ad platforms?
HN has in-feed ads for Y Combinator businesses. A great example of benevolent, win-win advertising, in my opinion.
Until march of last year Daring Fireball had The Deck[0]. Now it's just weekly sponsors, AFAIK.
Really? You can do the experiment yourself by sending certain emails and eventually getting ads target off what words were in them. I don't think this was controversial.
Parent comment is talking about the Mail app, I believe.