Who would have that that a major change would be used to provide advertisements from the biggest online advertising company?
Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?
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#12Yes, I saw this, but seems to be limited to the Promotions filtered tab which, well, an advert next to an advert. I'm kind of okay with that. But it does make you wonder if this is the start of a slippery slope.
Sort of makes sense...otherwise goggle is basically providing a space for others to advertise to you inside their application, which makes little business sense.
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#13I've tried outlook.com and it was OK. I wonder if this can help make hotmail relevant again.
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#14So to all intents and purposes this is targeted, Google endorsed spam delivered directly to my inbox?
If that's the case then it could be time to start looking for a replacement for the last Google product I use.
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#15If this becomes a thing, I might actually switch to something else.
Likewise, I've been thinking about moving away from Google Apps for a while and this may be the push that I needed. Anybody have any suggestions? Self-hosted or otherwise.
http://www.roundcube.net/ is generally agreed to be the best webmail system. It's OSS.
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#16I'd love for Google to work out how much money they make from me in a year, and then to offer to go ad-free for 50% more than that. At least then I could make an informed decision.
The problem is if Google were to do that, the value of their ads would plummet since the kind of people who would pay to opt out of ads are the same people who would be most likely to pay for things in ads.
Not 100% sure but I think this is is the same reason TV companies don't want to offer their content for streaming online, and Hulu can't remove ads for its premium users.
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#17ok, now I'm officially on the market for alternatives.
Maybe I should go back to good old mutt..
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#18I'd love for Google to work out how much money they make from me in a year, and then to offer to go ad-free for 50% more than that. At least then I could make an informed decision.
The problem is if Google were to do that, the value of their ads would plummet since the kind of people who would pay to opt out of ads are the same people who would be most likely to pay for things in ads. Not 100% sure but I think this is is the same reason TV companies don't want to offer their content for streaming online, and Hulu can't remove ads for its premium users.
Maybe. I sometimes don't even notice there are ads there because I ignore them so completely. I think you'd have to study the matter further.
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#19I'd love for Google to work out how much money they make from me in a year, and then to offer to go ad-free for 50% more than that. At least then I could make an informed decision.
Or even better, just sell their email software system so people can purchase it and install it on whichever server they want.
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#20I'd love for Google to work out how much money they make from me in a year, and then to offer to go ad-free for 50% more than that. At least then I could make an informed decision.
The problem is if Google were to do that, the value of their ads would plummet since the kind of people who would pay to opt out of ads are the same people who would be most likely to pay for things in ads. Not 100% sure but I think this is is the same reason TV companies don't want to offer their content for streaming online, and Hulu can't remove ads for its premium users.
Why are people who hate ads more likely to be influenced by them?