TIL that email senders can pay for sorting placement in the "social" and "promotions" tabs of gmail inbox:
https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/02/26/wheres-my-email
@sneak speaking as a person using email to have control over what I read (therefore, what I think), I don't think this practice is right 🙅🏽♀️
@manil people choose this when they choose gmail. nobody forces them to use gmail.
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