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Is MS Hotmail the email service that modified every outgoing mail to have an advertisement for itself in each email? Kind of like a vastly more aggressive and e
by cryptoz 9y ago
Is MS Hotmail the email service that modified every outgoing mail to have an advertisement for itself in each email? Kind of like a vastly more aggressive and earlier version of 'Sent from my iPhone'? I can't remember if it was Hotmail or Yahoo or both. But all the other advantages of Gmail aside, not modifying your outgoing mail to include advertisements is a big one.
- helloworld 9y agoIn Hotmail's early days -- before the Microsoft acquisition -- that email tagline was the VC Tim Draper's idea: https://techcrunch.com/2009/10/18/ps-i-love-you-get-your-free-email-at-hotmail/ https://techcrunch.com/2009/10/18/ps-i-love-you-get-your-fre...
- Feniks 9y agoYep just give everything to the Google machine. What could possibly go wrong? IIRC Google used to scan your emails to serve personal ads.
- cryptoz 9y ago> IIRC Google used to scan your emails to serve personal ads. Oh I assumed they still do. Did they stop that practice? Also I'm not suggesting that giving everything to The Google Machine is a good thing. I was just pointing out the super sleazy gross tactics.
- noisem4ker 9y agoThey stopped last june: https://qz.com/1014816/google-will-no-longer-mine-your-emails-for-advertising-data/ https://qz.com/1014816/google-will-no-longer-mine-your-email...
- jrcii 9y agoI guarantee they're still scanning the emails.
- aurizon 9y agoI attach meta-tags about sex with cats to outgoing e-mails, so far none have figured out out, and 37 have been arrested for bestiality...
- evgen 9y agoHotmail started it, Yahoomail (nee RocketMail) quickly followed, and Gmail had a more low-key viral roll-out without any ad footers on messages.