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I rarely if ever surrender my sanity to use gmail online. Of course it's a "free" service and we have no right to complain. We are after all the product not the
by coldcode 13y ago
I rarely if ever surrender my sanity to use gmail online. Of course it's a "free" service and we have no right to complain. We are after all the product not the customer. Products do not complain. When's the last time your can of tuna said anything? We are Google Tunafish.
- moron4hire 13y agoI really, really like that. Google Tunafish. Excellent.
- Oletros 13y agoWhy people repeat ad nauseam the wrong mantra that if you're not paying,m you're the product? You're not the fracking product, the product is ad space and is paid by advertisers And, buy the way people pay for GAPPS
- moron4hire 13y agoI think he's more pantomiming how it seems such companies treat us.
- _zen 13y agoThese type of sensational anti-Google posts on HN are getting really annoying.
- mankyd 13y ago> Of course it's a "free" service and we have no right to complain. This opinion needs to stop. Of course you have a right to complain. They _want_ you to complain. If you don't complain, and instead stop using the service, then the service gets shutdown. "They'd never shutdown gmail. Don't be silly." If no ones using it, of course they would.
- awj 13y agoUgh, I really wish this overly simplistic view of the relationship would die. It only feels clever because it appeals to the big-companies-screw-everybody sentiment.
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- nyrulez 13y agoWould you complain less if you paid for gmail ? Just like you pay for Cable, magazines and formerly newspapers ? Would you cease to be a "product" then ? Serious question.
- coldcode 13y agoAnyone here understand sarcasm?