alt Hacker News> ... not being a core product
Technically true, because Google's core product is ads. Also fundamentally wrong, because Gmail serves as a massive source of ad targeting information, in addition to being a high-engagement canvas to display those ads.
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exi2 • today at 11:08 AM
Google has not been scanning gmail mails for ad targeting since 2017. I think after 9 years we can finally let that one go.
Ad display I'll still grant you of course.
Sure, now it is.
It was an unproven long shot when they built it.