Given that this is avoidable by using any POP or IMAP client, I wonder how soon they'll close them down. I'm pretty sure it's a matter of "when".
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Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
> they wanted to "help us" sort out our inbox? As long as it stays in "promotions" tab, I could care less, as this is where they belong. If that's the case that's actually a smart move to introduce in-maillist ads without polluting the "real" inbox. As soon as they flow out of that bucket, we're entering Twitter's dickbar levels of dorkiness.
I still have to keep all of my inboxes at zero. Every inbox must still be checked in case there is something mis-directed. I go out of my way to unsubscribe from most promotions, so no, even in the promotions box this is not welcome for me.
This was my reaction to the tabs as well - now I have three inboxes to keep clean instead of one! I disabled them as soon as I could figure out how to.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd say it's exactly the reverse. The people who are most bothered by ads are the people to whom the ads provide the lowest value, and are thus the least likely to click them. For example, me.
I tend to agree with this. I rarely, if ever, click on ads because they seem interesting. I mostly see an ad and say "oh that is interesting, I was searching for cars before and now I'm being advertised cars on a music site, how completely useless". The truth is I think Google's adsense business has never had any real true value to customers (except for perhaps their 'first page at the top' paid ads, I use them a lot…
As a fellow "hipster programmer", I was also enticed by the Bellroy wallet ads...
They showed up when I was in the market for a wallet and were exactly what I needed. Love mine, but seeing your post was kind of eerie.
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#174Registered specifically to post this. Today seems to be an interesting day on HN. First, Google's ad revenue's are down ~5%, every jumps up and down saying the end is near and they need to shape up before they fade into irrelevance. Now a hint of a forthcoming feature where they are doing just that, making a change to increase revenue and people lose their minds. Lets think about this. The feature is under Promotions…
>The feature is under Promotions, a section already laden with junk for most people.
I don't know... I don't know how Google decides mail goes into the Promotions tab, but I have no junk in there. The things that went into my Promotions tab were:
-My auto insurance policy
-A notice from my vet saying my cats were due for vaccinations.
-Some (but not all) emails from my college's Alumni association (which probably would be considered promotional)
-Emails telling me my phone bill was due.
-Email confirming a car rental.
-Emails telling me that my auto loan payment was due.
-Email from Walgreens telling me that I have a prescription that was due for refill, and to reply to that email to automatically refill that prescription.
-Some emails that sites send after you create an account with them.
All these are important for me, but I wouldn't consider any of them promotional material. I don't sign up for promotions.
I went and disabled these silly tabs...
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
> NSA working as my email backup provider Backups are only useful if you are able to restore from them.
You know you just gave me an idea. The government asks you to store data with them so they do not have to go behind your back to get it and in exchange you get a backup with them that you can restore from.
To be honest, I've thought of Google for the last few years as what the NSA would become if it were were privatized and publicly listed. PRISMail might even be ad free!
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#176There is an awful lot of righteous indignation here over Google placing ads where you'll only see them if you're looking for ads.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you do that?
Click on the + sign next to the tabs. Uncheck everything except "Primary" (which you can't uncheck anyway)
You know what's funny? You do that and when you look there are still unread things in there that it pulls from the inbox. Once you dispose of them in the inbox, they do disappear, though.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you pay for it? No. Quit complaining, pay for it (Google Apps), or move on.
I'm letting them occupy a piece of my screen real estate and grab a share of my personal attention every day. I consider that a form of payment. Now they're coming up with this massive price hike, putting us in a position to choose between accepting a higher price and spending a lot of time moving our data elsewhere. Many people don't even know how to move existing email to a different provider. So this is definitely…
Your screen is only payment if they can put something they want there.
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#179Gmail gets creepier and creepier. I'm not there yet, but I'm close to looking for alternatives.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
I looked at Fastmail recently, but then I saw the Opera logo and hesitated. I want to know what would happen to them if Opera cannot maintain profitability. I'd like to know my mail provider is going to stick around a while.
Fastmail has been around since 1999, I think it's going to be okay.
They sold to Opera, so clearly it wasn't sustainable by itself.