Title is wrong/linkbait. Not 'your inbox'. Actual title is: "New Gmail Inbox Features <i>Ads That Look Like Emails, Above Promotional Email Subscriptions</i>" (emphasis mine).
Luckily it's easy to disable, or I'd be jumping ship now. Just turn off the tabs and the ads go with them - and the tabs are pretty useless anyway.
FastMail(.fm) costs $19.95 per year with 1 GB of storage and $39.95 with 10 GB of storage. And no ads, no NSA etc.<p>Stop complaining. Change provider.
Funny that the industry fights spam until it comes full circle and starts introducing its own version of spam but it's not called spam, it's advertising.<p>cf. Facebook, Gmail, LinkedIn, Twitter
That's nothing. Wait till they start streaming context dependent ads straight to your Google Glass :)<p>* Getting in your 2008 Toyota... Tada! An ad presenting the 2013 model.<p>* Walking by a Nike store... Tada! An ad featuring new sneakers.<p>* About to make love and for some reason left your Glass on... Tada! A safe sex promotion ad.
I'm reasonably certain that this is far more sinister than a simple advertisement tactic. No, dear people, this has all the similarity to Google's 411 service. I have this feeling that Google has implemented some new nifty ML-algorithms and we are giving them the training data. "We" are those people who aren't techy and think 'Sweet, I can classify my email nicely now'.
Sometimes I would really like to switch from Gmail, but I look around at the alternatives and think "do I trust this to be as reliable as Gmail? as stable? as dependable?"<p>The answer is always no. I hope I'm believing an illusion, but regardless, I still feel like Google's infrastructure is the only one I'd trust with my emails.<p>Reliability > privacy for me (for now)
I don't understand why people are making a fuss about it.
It shows only when you have chosen your inbox to show different categories.
Secondly it shows only in promotional email subscriptions. Not disturbing "Primary tab".