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correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't every email service scan emails? be it for spam, security, viruses. they have to scan them. i thought this is standard industry practice.



Typically, that's based on the email metadata such as the sender address, or mime types of the attachments as opposed to the actual content of the email.


I think that's only correct as of like 1995.

Even simple tools like spam assassin read the body, and you can bet that almost any public provider is doing more than spam assassin.


But they do not sell it or analyze it for advertising...


Neither does Google.


So you think Google gives it for free? Thought it is common sense: If you are not paying for it, you are the product.


There are ads on Gmail. They just aren't based on emails.

Not to mention all kinds of actually free services. Think colab.


So they claim.




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