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Docs and gmail let you slowly fill available space while being exposed to Google Ads. A Dropbox clone would let you fill available space quickly without ads.
by brlewis 15y ago
Docs and gmail let you slowly fill available space while being exposed to Google Ads. A Dropbox clone would let you fill available space quickly without ads.
- artursapek 15y agoThat's a fair point. It does look like they have an in-browser UI though, and it will drive more traffic to Google in general. The Chrome browser is another desktop app that doesn't directly benefit their ad campaign, but they have put a lot of time into.
- icebraining 15y agoGmail has POP3, IMAP and SMTP for free without ads.
- brlewis 15y agoYes, and GMail for mobile is ad-free. On average, though, I would expect more storage+bandwidth costs per ad impression from a GDrive user than from a GMail user, if GDrive turns out to be similar to Dropbox.