There is no doubt that Google makes its services profitable through advertising, so almost all of them are free. Gmail is no exception, and we’ve already talked about it due to the recent arrival of the blue verification check, but now it’s back on the scene because advert starts appearing in our emails.

This was echoed by some media like The Verge and Google’s increase the number of ads seeping into the middle emails On the Mobile devices we’ve received, the situation doesn’t look good with expandable ads taking up most of the screen.

More ads in Gmail

Gmail has ads Not new, because ads have long occupied our inbox and moved freely. These are in addition to already existing promotional emails or spam emails that Gmail should automatically categorize.

But now, many users have started reporting ads on social networks. integrated between emails, looks like another one with almost no difference. In fact, if it weren’t for the little icon with the word “Advertisement”, they could get past traditional emails.

on cell phone something similar happensWith the addition of some ads that expand with high resolution images, as first confirmed by 9to5Google. Of course, it is not known whether this change is a definite thing or just a test by the Mountain View company.

another way identify these ads and so to avoid touching them wrongly is to pay attention to the allowed actions. By default Gmail allows us to select emails in bulk as well as mark them as important (with the star icon). Neither of these two actions is allowed in ads.

How to remove ads from your inbox

Yes, you are reading it right. We can forget about annoying ads in the official Gmail app for Android change a setting. Fortunately, we can apply this change to avoid seeing ads anywhere.

This is how expandable ads look in Gmail for Android

To do this we will naturally open the Gmail application on the mobile phone and display the side menu from the left side (we can also click the button in the upper left corner). Then we’ll keep playing SettingsWe click on the account we will configure and go to the “Inbox” section.

By default, we will enable the “Default inbox” option, but if we change it to another mode, the promotions, social and notifications sections will be disabled, thus avoiding advertising. If we need the default tray and don’t want to change it, all we have to do is go to “Inbox categories” and then disable the tabs we don’t want to see. recommendable Disable “Promotions”because they are advertising messages as described in the app.

after this, we won’t be bothered by ads in the mobile application. However, in the future, Google may decide to serve ads regardless of user settings. We don’t know at the moment, but at least there is a way to avoid them.

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