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minnixA to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services

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From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services

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minnixA to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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If Gmail proved anything, it was that people would, for the most part, accept any terms of service. Or at least not care enough to read the fine-print closely.
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    The main advantage of Gmail at the time was honestly that they did away with tiny mailbox sizes and attachment limits.

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      The web UI was also vastly superior to Hotmail or Yahoo

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        And they blocked way more spam

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          Little did we know that it was them that was the real spam

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            The real spam was the friends we made along the way

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              Ain’t that the dang truth! lol

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      Yes, it was 1GB so you never had to delete anything.

      And their slogan was “search dont sort” googles search box was very advanced at the time compared to the free alternatives

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      I remember the counter too. The ever growing available capacity of my mailbox that was more space than I could ever use. Just open Gmail and watch that number grow

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