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I find it incredible that google can profit from Gmail. (Actually I find it incredible that Google can profit at all.)



Advertising is an incredibly profitable industry.


Gmail doesn't show ads anymore.


It provides a pretty good incentive to keep that Google cookie in your browser though (as well as your access to your interests, online purchase history, address book etc. etc. ad nauseam)


It does in the promotions tab.




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