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Look at gmail: I pay $60/year-ish for Fastmail. Gmail is at least that good. So is the purpose of gmail to have a cross device stable identifier? Absolutely.
by x0x0 6y ago
Look at gmail: I pay $60/year-ish for Fastmail. Gmail is at least that good. So is the purpose of gmail to have a cross device stable identifier? Absolutely. Are people realizing tons of value from it for free? Also yes.
- alkonaut 6y agoI expect to get a gmail type service paying only the "price" of having some unobtrusive ads when I'm on the gmail site, nothing else. I absolutely do not agree to google using anything from gmail to generate a stable user id for advertising, or e.g. show me ads in google search results or youtube videos, based on analysis of email content. If Google can't provide what I expect (a free mail service paid only by ads on gmail dot com) they should tell me that they want $X per year and I'd happily pay it. It's not that I don't want to fund the operations of services, it's that I'm always assumed to rather pay with my information than with dollars.