... Because it is basically the same concept but worse because you just gave up the privacy of your inbox to be data mined and sold. All for some minor convenie

... Because it is basically the same concept but worse because you just gave up the privacy of your inbox to be data mined and sold. All for some minor conveniences masquerading as a "cool hack". My father's a B2B salesman who spends a lot of time using LinkedIn for lead acquisition. He's thrilled for this thing because he spends "way too much time fiddling with the iPhone browser to try and get this info." I'm not saying the underlying security issues aren't valid, but to say it's a "minor convenience" is a failure of perspective.