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I pay for Google One and still have adds in Gmail.

Also not for those using the free (soon to be killed off over and over again story) legacy version. Almost switched since they were going to kill it but was too lazy to do it straight away and they didn't do it in the end, so lucky me.

"free use of Gmail" but only if you're using Google's email client. If you're using the POP (and, presumably, IMAP) API, you're not going to see any ads, amiright?

AFAIK you don't get ads in the Google email client as well, only when using gmail.com from your browser.

When using any POP/IMAP client, you won't get ads as the POP/IMAP protocol has no provisioning for it. Unless Google injects the ad into the email body (which is near impossible to do reliably) they cannot show ads even if they want to.

Fake ad emails. Coming soon.

Is it worth paying for workspace? If I'm a single person? I'm open to paying $100 for Google products. I already paid for Google one

Sure, but for how long?