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Which is the well-understood cost of getting an otherwise free, highly performant, unusually secure service for free.
by edraferi 9y ago
Which is the well-understood cost of getting an otherwise free, highly performant, unusually secure service for free.
- javajosh 9y agoWithout saying whether it is a good trade, we can at least surely say that it is NOT "well-understood" by users, since the vast majority are not aware of making this trade at all.
- tonyztan 9y agoI've always wondered why they don't offer the option for personal (gmail.com) users to pay for the service and opt out of monetization. I'd pay $5-10 per month for Google's services without me being the product.
- ozmodiar 9y agoAt that price you could just get a Google Suite email. Of course at a quick glance it just says no advertisements, I'm not sure that they wont be monetizing your data some other way.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> I'd pay $5-10 per month for Google's services without me being the product. That's actually not much different than paying for a domain and G Suite Basic. Which is probably what they expect people that concerned will do.
- tonyztan 9y agoThat's a good point. But currently there is no option to use my gmail.com address with G Suite, which I'd like to keep because of old accounts. I host my domain name email addresses with ProtonMail.
- pdonis 9y ago> the well-understood cost Cost, yes. Well understood? Not by the vast majority of the few billion Google users, who think it's perfectly normal for Google's service to just magically appear on the Internet without them having to fork over any cash.
- ryanlol 9y agoUnusually secure? Wasn't Gmail among the first in pushing super insecure SMS password resets, which are still resulting in high profile account hijackings every single day?