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Saturday December 21, 2024

Gmail Trash

If I were king of the world I would ban this practice.

This is from my gmail account. If I'm going through mail and deleting as I go, with the cursor over the trash-can icon, it looks like this:

Click, delete.

But if the next one in line is a sponsored ad, it's a different setup. The trash can suddenly moves to the side. And in its place?

Learn more. Meaning if you're just clicking and deleting, as I do, when you get to the ad and click again, it won't delete the email; it'll take you to the ad's website. And Google will get money for the clickthrough.

I wonder how much money Google gets for these clickthroughs? Probably not insignificant.

Here's my question: Do businesses know about this? That they're paying for inadvertent clickthroughs? Feels like a class action waiting to happen. So much of the modern tech world feels like a class action waiting to happen.

Posted at 12:29 PM on Saturday December 21, 2024 in category Technology