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The wording is confusing and I had to do a double take and then click on the help to figure out what its' really wanting to let me know. "Allow Gmail to open a

The wording is confusing and I had to do a double take and then click on the help to figure out what its' really wanting to let me know. "Allow Gmail to open all email links" is terrible wording. It would seem to the average user that gmail wants to open up all the links in their email. mailto: is getting less common (due to spambots) and personally I can't remember the last time I clicked on one of those (that wasn't a web page from 2002). This will cause a lot of confusion and some tech support calls from family/friends. Wouldn't it make more sense to say "Do you want to use Chrome as your default email client" or something?

andybak 15y ago
mailto: is getting less common due to spambots? I thought spam filters were getting better. I never hide my email address and get next to 0 spam (gmail).
drostie 15y ago
The whole post is terribly worded. When I heard "email links" I naturally thought, "links in my email" and not "mailto: pseudo-protocol links." So I was very confused when it said that "an application on my computer that I never used would pop up and interrupt me" and that now the links "will open a fresh Gmail compose window."