they werent already doing that ???
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.
Wow memory unlocked. Back in the day I read about this and as experiment/prank I added to a coworker outgoing signature the phrase " I need forks" in white text, smallest font.
Weeks later he complained that every page he went there would be ads for cutlery. His spam folder was full of cutlery promos. His Amazon page started with all sors of forks. I was amazed at all the sort of places he would get ads like that. Yes he was sending the message but how many advertisers knew of his “need” and how fast it spread.
Disturbing AF 💀.
I wouldn’t do this, but a company won’t provide a service for free and 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.
