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Only on HN will someone who makes money writing software complain that other fellow developers are asking for money from him for their software.
by otterley 9mo ago
Only on HN will someone who makes money writing software complain that other fellow developers are asking for money from him for their software.
- nelsonfigueroa 9mo agoThat is not what my comment is about.
- latchkey 9mo agoYou might want to edit your comment to explain because that was my own takeaway as well.
- latchkey 9mo agoI agree with your comment fully, but it also doesn't follow the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- otterley 9mo agoFair enough!
- aesh2Xa1 9mo agoNo, you probably haven't read the conversation piece. The post is ultimately about switching providers because Google's service crosses a line from (1) targeted advertising to (2) using personal and confidential information for model training. A service to clean up the UI does nothing to solve the issue at hand.
- latchkey 9mo ago"I tried to turn it off. I can." The complaint was about the summary, which Mimestream doesn't include.
- aesh2Xa1 9mo agoThe dealbreaker was data usage for AI training, not UI: "We are going to use your email to train our LLMs. I'm not okay with that... my confidential commercial information is NOT okay to use to train your models [...] So... goodbye Gmail." The title is Bye Bye Gmail.
- latchkey 9mo agoThey admit they can turn that off.