rach 1 Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Hey maybe someone can help me. Is there a way to turn off the ads that appear all over the place in gmail? It's getting annoying and I'd like them to be gone. Can't find any setting though it's probably staring me in the face! Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 I get only one tiny ad above the message pane, its one line of text. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 that's odd. I don't have any ads. Just a google chrome message in one line. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted September 7, 2009 Author Share Posted September 7, 2009 It doesn't seem to be them all but ads appear on the right hand side column, like they do on google itself. Of course, I try to ignore them but it's annoying. I suppose it's the price for being free. Link to post Share on other sites
yamayamayama 2 Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Use Outlook or something similar. Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted September 7, 2009 Share Posted September 7, 2009 Originally Posted By: rach It doesn't seem to be them all but ads appear on the right hand side column, like they do on google itself. Of course, I try to ignore them but it's annoying. I suppose it's the price for being free. the right column is the sponsored links, someone is paying google for those ads to be there ergo there isn't a way of turning them off. Thankfully they are unobtrusive enough: text only and not large flashing gifs or animated flash ads. Opera - block content Firefox - adblock are two great ways to block annyoing gifs and flash ads on other websites Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 I'm with you rach, I don't like them. Actually I don't really like gmail at all. I prefer all my mails in Outlook. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 I like gmail as the search function is faster than outlook/thunderbird etc. It doesnt work on IE8 on my laptop though(!). Many google apps dont work on my IE8 for some reason. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted September 9, 2009 Author Share Posted September 9, 2009 I know about the sponsored links thing SG - I just want to get rid of it. Seems I can't. One of the reasons I'll only use it when I don't have my computer with me. Link to post Share on other sites
Recommended Posts