Andy and Ken, thanks! I suspect you are are both entirely correct. Andy, I coincidently cleared my cache the day before when I quit, but not cookies. I thought I had a cookie control extension loaded, but see I need to find one I like. I'll clear cookies (though I hate losing the ones I accept as useful).
The ads I saw may be web clips, but they definitely weren't targeted (which I thought *all *google ads were, but I'm probably wrong). These were placed and behaved differently than expected, not at all like I expected under Chrome or Mozilla. I've seen the one-line ads before, near the top, but actually slightly separated from the mail pane and also separate from the context buttons above the mail pane. Those ads are also colored (these were bone white and not the 3-5% blue of the rest of the pane). There are also ads to the side in the reading pane and are targeted based on data Google has on me. These two are quite familiar to me. There's even a one-liner at the bottom of the reading pane )this time for business cards). Gary Greene [email protected] Gilroy, California On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Kenneth Ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > Those are the advertisements that Gmail displays under the promotions > category tab when you're using the tabbed inbox format. They look like > emails because they're displayed in the same list as whatever emails you > have currently in your promotions category. I usually see two or three of > those whenever I have emails waiting for me there. > > They're not emails so you can't mark them as spam. There should be a > dismiss button displayed if you view them. > > You can always just select not to display the promotions category tab. If > you do that, your promotional emails will be displayed in your regular > primary tab. > > Kenneth > > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 9:09 PM, angeleum . <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I checked Google mail this evening using Chrome Version 37.0.2062.94 >> (64-bit). When I looked under the promotions tab I found two messages >> I consider spam... one from auto.com on an automobile clearance sale >> and another inviting me to take a test from Luminance. I don't drive >> and I can't remember (and wouldn't) visit Luminance. >> >> I am a long time user of g-mail and switched to chrome several months >> ago. This is the first time I've encountered this annoying type of >> mail here. >> >> There were at the top of the list, had no check box on the left, no >> way to click in the area they displayed without opening the spam, and >> once in the message, no way to report the message as spam (the context >> button was missing). These messages were also highlighted to make >> them more noticable. At first I found no way to delete these >> messages, but then noticed an x-ed box the right margin, already x-ed. >> When I clicked there, the message went away. >> >> I inspected the element, but found nothing. Any comments? If this is >> an old issue, I apologize, but I haven't noticed it before in the >> lists discussions. >> >> >> -- >> Gary Greene [email protected] >> Gilroy, California >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
