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Gmail Madness Exhibit #4, Knife Throwing Party
From our contextual friends at Gmail again. I've circled the only words in this email that might have triggered these ads. Use of the words "weekend" and "throw" seemed to make the scanners think, "Hey! Knife Throwing! Bachelorettes! Sounds like a wild weekend!"
Gmail Madness Exhibit #3
The email was supposed to be pictures of a space we might rent for a party. Some kind of metadata triggered the Gmail to serve up links to liposuction and menstruation pictures.
You can't make this stuff up.
You can't make this stuff up.
Gmail Madness Exhibit #2
Here an email with a friend sharing the passing of the late, great George Carlin and news about her daughter attending college in Cambridge, Mass. Check.
That still doesn't explain the ad on the bottom about Mindful Dog Yoga.
That still doesn't explain the ad on the bottom about Mindful Dog Yoga.
Gmail Madness Exhibit #1
Gmail "reads" your email. Then Gmail serves up ads you want to see because they know what your email's about.
In this case, Gmail Madness Exhibit #1, the email is about the passing of my sister-in-law's old beau named "Hugh." The relevance
In this case, Gmail Madness Exhibit #1, the email is about the passing of my sister-in-law's old beau named "Hugh." The relevance
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