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		LeonM on Jan 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I miss Inbox, so I hacked Gmail with a little CSS ... It's a free service. Free as in free beer. There are real costs in hosting an email service, they need to pay for it somehow. If you don't want ads, just pay for a G-suite account.

torgard on Jan 24, 2020 [–]

Well that would certainly explain why I haven't seen these ads - I pay for G-suite.

Nonetheless, I find this to be heinous. Practically the same as Google vouching for spam emails, pushing them directly into your inbox.

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