Man I am super sorry my basic privacy are getting in the way of your marketing effort.

Edit: removed "rights"

Google can't read your post office mail. It can't read your Yahoo mail. But you certainly have no right that says it can't read your Gmail mail.

You're confusing a want with a right.

To be fair, your “basic privacy rights” have nothing to do with this, it's about simplifying Google's efforts to sell services (which weren't actually effected by this anyway, but perception is a different thing than reality) to enterprise customers.

They aren't stopping Gmail ads, they are just stopping using Gmail content as an input signal for ad personalization.

That's what makes them effective though. Otherwise its the same as any other GDN site.

I didn't think there were any ads in their business email.

This is referring to whether you see ads for hemorrhoid medication all over the Internets after talking about them in an email.

As the founder and CTO of Blekko search engine, one would imagine that you would be familiar with Google's personalized advertising policies: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/143465?hl=en (Found through a quick Google search)

There isn't, but most business folks use free gmail for their usual accounts.

> most business folks

You have no idea how wrong you are.

Nonetheless, Gmail ads are great for B2B advertising at scale.