Email Generated Ads

[noise]

I ran across this on Yahoo News in Dear Margo column and extracted it verbatim. Do gmail users notice this?

A Yahoo! News vice-president answered [a] question ..... "User privacy is of the utmost importance in everything we do at Yahoo! You'll find it spelled out in our TOS and Privacy Policy that Yahoo! will not monitor or edit the contents of a user's private communications. All the relevant details can be found at http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/utos-173.html. (To translate from geek-speak to English, TOS means terms of service.) We don't read people's e-mail and we don't target ads based on their contents -- unlike, say, gmail -- where no human reads the e-mail, but their algorithms do. This is the reason you can write a friend about poor Aunt Hilda in Halifax being depressed, and then get an ad for mental health services in Nova Scotia."

[londonthai]

yes, but gmail gives you far superior to yahoo email service - with a box 1000 times bigger. And they figured out how to personalise ads so you don't have to seach

[SwaziBird]

I ran across this on Yahoo News in Dear Margo column and extracted it verbatim. Do gmail users notice this?

A Yahoo! News vice-president answered [a] question ..... "User privacy is of the utmost importance in everything we do at Yahoo! You'll find it spelled out in our TOS and Privacy Policy that Yahoo! will not monitor or edit the contents of a user's private communications. All the relevant details can be found at http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/utos-173.html. (To translate from geek-speak to English, TOS means terms of service.) We don't read people's e-mail and we don't target ads based on their contents -- unlike, say, gmail -- where no human reads the e-mail, but their algorithms do. This is the reason you can write a friend about poor Aunt Hilda in Halifax being depressed, and then get an ad for mental health services in Nova Scotia."

IMO, the offers generated and provided by Gmail are a terrific service. I find them to be totally non-intrusive, nor distracting. From time to time something catches my attention ( out of the corner of my eye ) and I glance acoss, only to be amazed at the incredible technology employed. I have, possibly twice so far,

clicked on an ad. and earned Google their 1 cent ( or whatever) and come away with RELVANT information.

I think it's a great service and for those who like to respond to ads. there is the provision of evidently fairly PERTINENT and very easily accessed links.

But , as I said, I dont make any real use of that service - nor am I likely to.

Cheers.

[bunta71]

Happens to me all the time with Yahoo and I find it quite Big Brotherish

[Tywais]

Not specifically Chiangmai related, moved to Internet forum.

[Guest Reimar]

All american (US) internet traffic incl. all e-mails even from and to Yahoo are checked with running algorithms checking searching for special sentences! And I do believe that the most countries around the world doing the same!

[Tywais]

All american (US) internet traffic incl. all e-mails even from and to Yahoo are checked with running algorithms checking searching for special sentences! And I do believe that the most countries around the world doing the same!

A good reason to use SSL for e-mail/webmail.