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I would rather it just cost less as opposed to entirely free. If there were a paid alternative to GMail, I would move away from that too. Paying for something
by anotherperson 16y ago
I would rather it just cost less as opposed to entirely free. If there were a paid alternative to GMail, I would move away from that too.
Paying for something reduces the likelihood that the provider will do unscrupulous things with my data for financial gain. Or at least I feel like they’d be less likely. And ignorance is bliss, right?
- fierarul 16y agoI dunno, I pay for extra storage on GMail (and the rest of Google's services) and I don't think it removes the ads. It's just extra storage.
- bmalicoat 16y agoI feel similarly. I started paying for extra gmail storage after reading a story of how one guy's gmail just ceased to be one day. I hope that somehow by paying, gmail has a small motivation to keep mine in existence. Probably wrong, but it makes me feel better.
- altano 16y agoThere is such an alternative: hosted Exchange. ActiveSync is an almost ubiquitous protocol. Add on the fact that it's currently usually businesses that use it, and I feel even safer that my data won't be fucked with or social networked (cough buzz) on a whim. Maybe on a little more, but probably not a whim :) It's what I use and love.