Gmail Placing Ads Into Your Inbox as Normal Email Messages

Google’s Gmail update last week came with a few useless tabs – but my sneaky suspicion that the search company was up to no good came true when news leaked that they were placing ads into the promotions tab as actual emails. Google, in their own defensive statement, alluded to the fact that ads are needed to power the free email service, but it doesn’t alleviate the feeling that their idea of a “better experience” means just the opposite.