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From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services (www.engadget.com)

submitted 7 months ago by minnix@lemux.minnix.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

And not just a little bit of convenience. At that time, Hotmail had like 14 MB of space whereas Gmail had 1 GB. Before, you were constantly out of space, whereas Gmail users could keep on going without ever deleting anything.

Would you rather walk if you could have a personal uber driver with a Mercedes? Well, the driver is super creepy, but least the seats are soft. He will take you everywhere for free, but will also know everything about those rides and the conversations you had during them.

[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

Yahoo was the competition as far as space is concerned. Even today, it offers a whopping 1 TB for email.