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Apps and Software By Matthew Humphries Jul. 19, 2013 8:27 am gmail_inbox
Back in May, Google rolled out an update to Gmail that it marketed as “a
new inbox.” What it did was to split the email you receive into categories
and then display them in different tabs. The idea being that it gives you
more control over what you view and makes email less overwhelming.
One of the tabs Google introduced is called Promotions, which would group
together any and all promotions and offers you sign up to receive. For
example, those emails Amazon sends out suggesting stuff you might like to
buy.
On the face of it this sounded like a nice extra feature for Gmail to help
organize your email. It’s important to note that you can choose not to use
it, although that may change in the future once Google has worked the kinks
out.
The Gmail redesign wasn’t just to help users, though. It turns out Google
has decided to introduce a new form of advertising because of it, one that
you could view as being much more intrusive than before.
Some users have started noticing that in the Promotions tab new emails are
appearing that they haven’t singed up to receive. As you can see in the
image below, these emails as marked as “Ad” under the sender name. A
little further investigation reveals they are actually Google adverts
packaged as emails.
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Blurring the line between emails and adverts will be viewed as a step too
far for some users, including myself. Not only could these be classed as
unwanted/spam emails, they just add to the number of emails you need to
organize or delete. The good news is, it looks as though you do have some
control over whether you receive these email adverts, but again, that could
change at any time if Google decides to get more aggressive with its
advertising push.
So, adverts masked as emails, a step too far or something we just need to
accept as part of the Gmail experience?
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发帖数: 16352 | 3 我把所有的所谓"新功能"都砍了, 目前还好.
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