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Well, they could just serve privacy ads to people who were encrypting their communication.
by sroerick 12y ago
Well, they could just serve privacy ads to people who were encrypting their communication.
- Karunamon 12y agoHeh, that's actually a neat idea. The profile of people which regularly send/receive encrypted email is basically geeks right now. Key off of the "-----BEGIN PGP ENCRYPTED MESSAGE-----" bit.
- sroerick 12y agoYeah. Honestly, I think that if you know that someone encrypts their messages, you probably know a lot more about them then most other data points reveal. It would also get Google a lot of street cred for being a privacy centric business. My only problem is, I just don't see how you can scale the Chromebook software stack to a privacy centric business. I can't imagine trying to secure PGP keys on a Chromebook. But I haven't used one since the early beta models, so others may have more informed opinions,.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoOr offer to let me pay for Gmail in lieu of scanning my email. Seriously Google, take my money.
- sroerick 12y agoYou may want to find another email provider with a different business model.
- jacquesm 12y agoAdvertise tinfoil?