Advisory: Be careful of what you read on social media. The algorithms used by these platforms have no regard for Biblical truth. They target your emotions to keep you engaged on their site so their advertisers can drop more ads. These platforms exist to enrich their stockholders. Consider God’s promise to Believers in James 1:5, “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.”
Featured Story
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is going to stop reading your Gmail in search of opportunities to sell ads.
The change announced Friday will end a practice that Google has embraced since the company introduced Gmail in 2004. The practice has raised concerns among privacy watchdogs and creeped out some users.
To help finance the free service, Google has been scanning through what Gmail users were discussing and then showing ads connected to some of the topics. Someone writing about running, for instance, might see ads for Nike or Asics shoes.
Google still plans to show ads within Gmail. But instead of scanning through email content, the company’s software will rely on other signals to determine which ads are most likely to appeal to each of its 1.2 billion Gmail users.
The Mountain View, California, company said it would stop the ad-driven scanning of Gmail later this year.
Google says it’s changing course so its free Gmail service operates more like the subscription version that it has sold to more than 3 million companies. The paid Gmail doesn’t include ads, so the company has never tried to scan the content of those users’ emails for marketing purposes.
Despite that, Google said some of its business customers incorrectly assumed the company was scanning those accounts as well. By ending all scanning, Google hopes to end the confusion and sell Gmail to even more businesses.
Gmail now ranks as the world’s largest email service, an indication that most people didn’t care about Google’s scanning methods. Both Microsoft and Apple have publicly skewered Google for having the audacity to mine users’ emails for ad sales, but those attacks didn’t undercut Gmail’s popularity.
Support HNewsWire to help build a global news network that provides a credible source for world news We believe Christians need and deserve their own global news network to keep the worldwide Church informed, and to offer Christians a positive alternative to the anti-Christian bigotry of the mainstream news media.Be Bless. StevieRay Hansen….
Copyright 2017 © https://hnewswire.com
Tagged In
Newsletter
Must Read
Other Sources
Latest News
Watchman’s Daily Devotional: The Journey Is Full of Trials. Those Trials Cause Grief, but They Also Accomplish a Purpose. They Prove Our Faith, Like Precious Metal Is Purified by Fire. They Burn out the Impurities of Our Worldly Ideas and Misguided Doctrines
1 Peter 1:6-8 6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of…
Read More
Watchman: TX Attorney General Responds After Texas Supreme Court Blocks Guaranteed Income Program; Now, Voter Buying Is Preferred by Elitists
By SRH, The Texas Supreme Court issued an emergency stay, instructing Democrat-controlled Harris County not to implement a guaranteed income program and stopping the county…
Read More
Watchman: Joe Biden Is a Very Sick Man, Ask The Demonic Jesuit Pope, Both Applauds Transgenderism, Both Encourages Sick Individuals to Pursue Their Sexual Deviance in Plain Sight, Right Is Wrong, Wrong Is Right, Tribulation on Full Display
HNewsWire-Joe Biden is a sick man who supports transgenderism. Encourages ill people to pursue their sexual deviance in public with the introduction of a new……...
Read More
Wall Street & Municipal Banking in Crisis. Global Stock Markets Will Crash. FED’s Fake Money Can’t Prop U.S. Much Longer.
Featured Story: The Bible reminds us to stay vigilant and protect our hearts from the corruption of sin. Evil can only infiltrate our lives if…
Read More
Watchman: mRNA Vaccine-Vaccinated Meat From Animals May Soon Be Found in US Food Supplies. Shrimp, Pigs, and Cattle Are Just a Few of the Food Sources Being Targeted by mRNA Gene Therapy Technology–A New Way To Kill
HNewsWire: The range of food sources targeted by mRNA gene therapy technology is growing and now includes shrimp. Through its orally delivered RNA-particle technology, an…
Read More
We make every effort to acknowledge sources used in our news articles. In a few cases, the sources were lost due to a technological glitch. If you believe we have not given sufficient credit for your source material, please contact us, and we will be more than happy to link to your article.
