Though I usually ignore them, I noticed a somewhat disturbing ad in gmail a couple of weeks ago.
There are no ads in my gmail, thanks to Greasemonkey.
It wasn't until someone at Yglesias's, I think, mentioned ogling the women that it even occurred to me that someone might do that.
And just when I thought you might really be heterosexual.
One of the ads that showed up in my gmail account was for a porn site whose name has my first name in it. (And no, my name isn't Amber.)
Gmail is annoying for a whole host of reasons. I still find the layout confusing. Apparently so do others, because a while back a friend of mine meant to send me an email bitching about a woman he was dating, but instead of sending it to me, he accidentally sent to her. Hilarity ensued.
Never noticed them before.
I don't see them either. Near as I can tell, ads don't register at all unless I'm actively looking for whatever it is being flogged.
However, if they're working down in the bilges of my wetware, I don't really care, I suspect they're in far more danger of eliciting reflexive hostility than the urge to buy.
4: Was the glitch in his gmail or in his unconscious?
I live in terror of such mistakes, but what I'm afraid of is not some technical glitch but rather that the wires will cross in my brain, mixing up "This email is ABOUT so-and-so" and "This email should be SENT to so-and-so."
Gmail is really hard to figure out for some reason. I have a hard time finding the send button.
Joeo -- easier than looking for the send button is just typing tab, space to send.
(This can of course lead to problems if you are used to typing tabs in the body of your e-mails.)