Get rid of ads when using Gmail

JatMat

JatMat

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My son alerted me to this little quirk in using Gmail. If you do not want ads attached to your outgoing emails and the replies. Use this sentence, but do not attempt to use it as a signature option, it does not work there. I downloaded Autohotkey and use it to paste in my signature into the body of my composed emails.

Try it, you will like it and so will the folks getting your email.

Jim

I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a messy bloodbath.
 
It probably bumps your emails around the ad logarithm because of all the time it spends on the servers at Homeland Security.
 
Funny, I never get ads when I send Gmail messages. Yahoo and Hotmail are a terror. :mad:

Michael's probably right though. :D
 
I never noticed ads in my hotmail/gmail messeges, but I use Outlook for those accounts...
 
Perhaps you never have noticed, but on the right hand side, there have always been sponsored links that appear off key words in your mail. Google computers read your mail and if you have, say the word sausage in your email, you are likely to have a link to folks that sell that item, same for other key words. My daughter said the same thing, until she actually looked at some of her email. The sponsored links are there.

Check your mail again and see if the links are not there. Use the sentence, change the text color to white, then send a message. View your sent message and see the difference.

Of course, you may incur the wrath of google. I have been locked out of my account for about 20 hours and just got back in this morning. I cleared all google cookies and then logged back in. It worked.:)

If you do not have ads without the sentence, I would say you are one lucky person. I have always had them, I was a beta tester on the first set of google gmail accounts.

Have fun,
Jim
 
JatMat said:
Perhaps you never have noticed, but on the right hand side, there have always been sponsored links that appear off key words in your mail. Google computers read your mail and if you have, say the word sausage in your email, you are likely to have a link to folks that sell that item, same for other key words. My daughter said the same thing, until she actually looked at some of her email. The sponsored links are there.

Check your mail again and see if the links are not there. Use the sentence, change the text color to white, then send a message. View your sent message and see the difference.

Of course, you may incur the wrath of google. I have been locked out of my account for about 20 hours and just got back in this morning. I cleared all google cookies and then logged back in. It worked.:)

If you do not have ads without the sentence, I would say you are one lucky person. I have always had them, I was a beta tester on the first set of google gmail accounts.

Have fun,
Jim
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Not to mention that those ads are small, don't attach to the bottom of every message, and still show up when reading other peoples emails. I'd rather not send creepy partially hidden sig lines to everyone I write a business email too.
 
I don't even pay attention to that kind of crap. If bozo's want to pay money for their company to be on the right hand side of my email I say let them. I have never clicked on those things anyway
I just tried it and it does not work anyway. Sorry
 
I don't check my Google mail in a web browser, I check it and send it from an email client, Mail in OS X. I do not have ads in either mail I receive or send as far as I can tell and I've looked for it in about 70 or so emails. I also tried sending it to another email account and the same thing there. No ads attached themselves to the email.
 
I send and receive through my browser, that must be the difference. Thanks for the information.
Jim
 
If you use Firefox you can install the plugin 'Webmail Ad Blocker', and it makes all the adds on the right side of the screen vanish and expands your messages out to fill the space. Very nifty little program!
 
Revolvergeek said:
If you use Firefox you can install the plugin 'Webmail Ad Blocker', and it makes all the adds on the right side of the screen vanish and expands your messages out to fill the space. Very nifty little program!
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But I am addicted to Chrome.:o
Jim

Will install on FF3 that I have not used in a while.
 
Unless I am blind, I do not have any ads either. Not in my inbox or in actual emails I have received or sent???

I use Firefox and do not have any plug ins installed.
 
Haha! It worked! Here's a picture of the ads from a rolling stone email (about Jonas brothers :barf:), and then I sent a couple emails to myself to make sure ads showed up, then said the phrase and now they're gone.

gmailads1.png

gmailads2.png
 
go mike said:
Haha! It worked! Here's a picture of the ads from a rolling stone email (about Jonas brothers :barf:), and then I sent a couple emails to myself to make sure ads showed up, then said the phrase and now they're gone.

gmailads1.png

gmailads2.png
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Thank Goodness, for a bit, I thought I might be losing it. It worked with all my friends that have gmail, but here on the forum, most said NOPE. Thanks for sharing. Now just change the text color to white and it will not be seen unless someone highlights it.
Jim
 
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