It
was not long after I started using Gmail as my primary email service that it
was brought to my attention that the text ads on top of my inbox would often
reflect at least one of the subject lines to an email. A good example of that would be an ad for pet
supplies showing up after I had received (or sent to) an email to PetCareRx,
which could happen at least once a day.
Ah, but that is a rant for another day.
Anyway,
I really did not think all that much about the ads reflecting my emails at
first. If anything, I found it somewhat
entertaining—especially the ads for a cookbook with Spam recipes showing up at
the top of my spam folder.
Oh,
but it started troubling me somewhat whenever an ad for some medicine would
show up after I had mentioned something about some sort of sickness in an
email, which was not indicated in the subject line. For I look upon that as being like the United
States Postal Service reading my mail.
Yes,
I understand that an email is not sealed like a letter is, but there should be
a line that cannot be crossed. It sure
helps to explain why my Social Security Disability lawyer recoiled like I had
said something ridiculous when I asked him if they had an email address to send
and receive correspondence about my case a few years back. Yes, there is an opt-out option regarding
displayed ads, but will this prevent them from going through my emails anyway?
Alas,
as if it is not bad enough that Google has geeks snooping around in my personal
emails, there was a notification at the top of my homepage when I opened my
[Google Chrome Browser] a few days ago that said that they had disabled some extensions
that may have been installed by mistake in order to speed up page loading. Whoa now, is this not akin to a landlord
going in one of their rental properties and rearranging the furniture to make
it easier for the tenant to get from room to room? I don’t know about you, but I would like to
do my own interior decorating—thank you!
Okay,
both Gmail and the Chrome browser are free.
That is, at least in regards to them being free to use. So, there is only so much that can be said,
but there appears to be more of a difference than ever between my definition of
evil and that of Google’s. I sure hope
they get back to their roots soon.
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