There is ads on gmail???
I’m genuinely shocked that there are people out there that view ads. Between ublock and pihole depending on location I can barely think of the last ads I saw.
It’s using apps on a non local connection that gets me.
You can still catch most of them using a blocking DNS service like dns.adguard.com but still some get through.
Ublock isn’t going to block these ads. These ads are those little emails with the ad tag in your Social and Promotions tab, not banner ads or popups.
I think it’s talking about emails in the Promotions tab with the word “ad” in a box at the beginning of the subject line.
Promotion tab?
Also, if I ever get an ad via mail, it will be immedetly reported as spam. Haven’t seen any ads outside my spamfolder for quite awhile.
Gmail sorts email by tab. Click the triple lines and you’ll see Primary, Promotions, and Social. Basically Gmail didn’t like the word spam, so they named the folder promotions.
There are ads in Gmail?
edit: i just disabled adblockers… still no ads… Genuinely confused
edit2: OK read the article and none of the settings where there. Just went into my alt gmail account, and I have the ads and the settings mentioned in the article. I guess my main gmail account is so old (2010?) it does not have these features
I’m pretty sure they’re talking about the subtle ad disguised as an email in the promotions tab, its not even from someone I wouldn’t expect to send me an email, that’s why it’s so sneaky. It’s literally a promotion from a company whose emails I’m subscribed to.
I’ve never seen Gmail ads but I also disabled these tabs as soon as they appeared so…
TLDR:
To skirt around the ads, you must disable the Promotions, Social, and Forums tabs. That’s where it gets a bit tricky. If you depend on the Social tab to keep you updated on your various social networking feeds, you’ll want to keep that enabled, but doing so will not prevent ads from showing up.
