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Yes? Gmail was promoted on the grounds of "hey it's just ads based on automated scans of the emails, no human actually looks at any of it" and that was a big part of people accepting the tradeoff.

Kind of refutes the claim that it's just like showing specific emails with date/times to the general public.

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