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[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/

Makes some interesting points.

Here's a question. Why on earth would google want you to have 1 gig worth of webspace? What does that get google?

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[theobon.livejournal.com]

a large database of information to use for contextual ads ofcourse.

[ex-starmande883.livejournal.com]

Why would you be trading stuff that can get you in trouble via email?

Someone always has to try and defeat a good thing.

[korenwolf.livejournal.com]

Never underestimate the stupidity of the average person.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

Hey just because YOU don't see the black helicopters hovering around their house doesn't mean Detective Munch and The Lone Gunmen over there don't..;-p

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Urrr.. yeah. I'm not really worried about 'them' finding out about my plans to stage a coup, its more the precedent that gmail sets.

As spelled out on the page.

[reddragdiva]

There isn't a word of that that doesn't apply to every other webmail service in existence. Gmail has problematic aspects, but none of them are novel in the slightest.

Note that the page is written by a crank who is convinced Google doesn't rank his pages high enough because THEY'RE OUT TO GET HIM and therefore everything they touch is EEEEEVIL!!!1!!@!!!!1!

[nirvanaqween.livejournal.com]

Im with you. Damn conspirestest are everywhere. The damn email service is beta, perhaps they will charge eventually. People are crazy.

Id rather have little ads that i dont pay attention to, rather than 100 spam mails that you get with yahoo or hotmail.

[hoffman-log.livejournal.com]

What does that get google?

A large sector of the web-based email market. It drives name recognition which drives up their stock.

_MaH

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

kind of amuseing. the part i wonder about is why people treat it like gold, its a beta still. so there is a chance that everything gets dropped to 0 for public release so all of us geeks with gmail accts may have to do it all over again.

and while things are a beta they have the right to do just about anything under that provision. personally i was curious. so i got a gmail acct when presented with the opportunity but will not likely convert over to it as my main way of getting email unless they allow for pop or imap acess.

[miguelitof.livejournal.com]

I like the way that the author of that article repeatedly says, "We don't use Gmail, but..."

I also like the way that the author implies that Gmail is the only service that scans incoming email. Any mail service which offers virus protection or anti-spam services scans incoming email. The only difference is that Google's system matches the text to relevant ads instead of against known virus or spam signatures. The process is basically the same.

I consider this guy a quack with an axe to grind with Google.

[v3nu5.livejournal.com]

The conspiracy theory document about the faked moon landing that began circulation circa 1997 was more convincing AND more amusing than this anti-gmail propaganda.

I think this fruit has already gotten more attantion than he deserves. Much more.

Perhaps its time for him to be slashdotted. It's the only DOS that doesnt deny him his right to free speech. But it does get him more attention, which is bad.

Dilemmas.