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My point is that if you don't like Gmail ads, you should investigate switching to something else. I feel like many people are uncomfortable with the ads but mig
by masnick 13y ago
My point is that if you don't like Gmail ads, you should investigate switching to something else. I feel like many people are uncomfortable with the ads but might feel locked in.
I actually don't care that Google is machine-reading email to serve ads (see http://www.maxmasnick.com/2012/02/12/gmail_paranoia/ http://www.maxmasnick.com/2012/02/12/gmail_paranoia/), but I do care about polluting the interface with ads that look like email for the same reason I don't like the new compose interface. Both make the interface worse, and email is bad enough as it is without bad UI.
- warcode 13y agoOr just, you know, block the ads for a fraction of the effort.
- masnick 13y agoWith what? I _do_ care about running random plugins in my browser that update in the background. There's nothing stopping a malicious plugin from scraping stuff out of your email, and I feel like _that_ is a legitimate security concern!
- gohrt 13y agoThere's nothing stopping a malicious webmail provider from scraping stuff out of your email, which, BTW, is the whole point of this post. Fastmail isn't even under the control of your local firewall.
- Karunamon 13y ago>I _do_ care about running random plugins in my browser that update in the background. Then turn that function off [1]. There's no more security threat from well-known browser plugins from Mozilla's site than well-known packages from your OS's apt repo. And both are open source. [1] http://imgur.com/tivq9o8 http://imgur.com/tivq9o8