> they aren't mining my communication for ad revenue or the enabling of any convenience features which indirectly leads to ad revenue Exactly. Ever wonder why

> they aren't mining my communication for ad revenue or the enabling of any convenience features which indirectly leads to ad revenue Exactly. Ever wonder why Amazon stopped including an itemized list of your order in its conformation emails? (and switched to things like "Your order of Super Soake... (and 33 other items) has shipped")? Google was mining the hell out of them to flesh out their user profiles, and Amazon didn't want to gift them its customer data. Google need to be broken up, and Gmail doubly so (which shouldn't be too hard, since email was designed as a federated system).