Gmail serving straight up malware rule
Gmail serving straight up malware rule
(the link is not paid for, nor does it go to, McAfee, it's malware)
Can't wait to fully migrate to Proton.
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Why are there ads in Gmail what is this? I have never seen ads in my Gmail app
They only show if you have categories enabled, and then only on the Promotions category.
Honestly it still would have been malware if it was actually McAfee.
Gmail serves you ads? Holy shit...
Proton slaps. Strongly recommend. And they keep giving benefits every year for loyalty like more free cloud storage space.
Unfortunately, just like any private company, it can be bought or sold or just have new owners after the old ones die.
As a company, those great things they do for consumers can change on a whim, especially with new management and sudden need for revenue.
I mean, I remember people saying similar things about Gmail when it was invite only and had 1gb of storage. "It's the best, why would you use anything else?"
All this time later, not feeling those same things so much, you know?
Proton’s services have been fully open source and regularly audited for years now. Until an audit reveals something or they start locking things down, they are a great option. You shouldn’t refuse to use a service because they might change their mind one day. Unless you expect everyone to roll their own everything.
Gmail was never open source. It was just very ahead of its time with its integrations/offerings.
how does that even make it through google's qa?
thunderbird and k9 + a monthly donation to thunderbird rule :)
The content of the ads doesn't matter as long as they're paying for ads ;)
If you use Gmail badly this it what happens.
I feel like this is more on the user than on the app. Haven't ever seen anything like this.
It's the default Gmail layout, the one your average Joe who might seriously click on this would use.
If you remove your Promotions tab, it doesn't serve you ads.
Remove the "Promotions" tab. Ads are GONE!
As much as I hate Google and corporations altogether, maybe read the friggin' manual from time to time?
The problem here is they're serving literal malware in their client, and the categorized view is the default, which the average person will use.
I've switched to K9 mail for that account, doesn't matter what the Gmail client does anymore.
The problem is...you allowed it. Could have just read and avoided the problem altogether. Again, I'm not thrilled with it, which is exactly why I chose to turn it off. Malware doesn't typically allow you to opt-out.
And let me know when K9 supports Exchange. Unfortunately, some of us still need to use protocols outside of IMAP and POP.
Ok thank you for this. I didn't even know you could add and remove categories
AFAIK ads can be served in any category now. They were limited to promotions for a very long time. I turned off all categories a year or two ago when ads starting showing up in Updates.
What’s proton?
Good question!
It's a privacy and security-focused productivity suite, mostly known for their Proton Mail product.
They don't sell your data, they're mostly open-sourced and get audited frequently.
Hmm interesting, I’ve been wanting to move away from outlook, I may need to look into this.
Hello there, fellow Montrealer!
Yeah I changed my Gmail view recently and I get ads now too.
Allo j'tai reconnu :D
Like I said elsewhere in the thread, I just switched to K9 mail, which is eventually going to become Thunderbird. Hopefully it's good 🤞
Buy a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra and install McAfee on it. What could possibly go wrong?
This is why I switched to K-9 Mail instead of using GMail because borderline Google was legitimately serving malware not just McAfee which isn't malware. Since it allows me to have my Gmail and other email accounts in it all at the same time instead of a dedicated app filled with ads leading to real malware.
Oh this doesn't link to McAfee, this links to a scam site that may or may not send you to McAfee's website after clicking their big "buy now" button.
why would you open it lmao
I didn't at first, I went through the kebab menu to report it, and it tells me which domain it points to.
I did click it eventually out of curiosity because I'm on Firefox with an ad blocker and privacy tools.
The link within actually goes to McAfee, but I'm guessing it's some sort of smart switcher where it sometimes sends you to a fake checkout page?
Oh man been off the personal plan on gmail for a while (only have gmail for work because my office is on gsuite) and my pal showed this to me recently and I fucking rolled 🤣 I had tutanota an proton for a while but no SMTP support forced me into zoho which is still a millions time better than gmail
The fact that it goes to a malware website makes it 100 times better