This is nice if your main goal is to take privacy back. For me, Gmail is not only free, but provides great mobile apps and email innovation like filtering, sear

This is nice if your main goal is to take privacy back. For me, Gmail is not only free, but provides great mobile apps and email innovation like filtering, search, and a tabbed inbox. In short, Gmail provides more value to me than being a simple SMTP server, so I'm willing to pay with my advertising eyes.