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PRØBE said:
Thank you for the "clarification".
The emails are scanned, information is gleaned from them, that information is then exploited for marketing purposes. That's an invasion of privacy, voluntary or not. While I am expressing an opinion about the ethics of Gmail, you are merely stating that you accept the logisitics of it.

Now we see your real problem, not that the email is scanned, but just that ads are used. It's not an invasion of privacy. Why? YOU AGREE TO IT IN THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. If Google went into your regular mail and look in it without your permission, then by all means, that's an invasion of privacy. Before you start throwing around law, read it first.
 
the_mole1314 said:
Do you actually read posts? The emails are SCANNED for certain words relating to advertisements, even then, only mabey 1 out of 3 emails has an ad in it. Google by no means remembers, nor keeps track of, anything in your emails when they scan it for ads. If you are so offended by it, then stop using these boards, the software scans your message for smilie text to convert it to an image, same for AIM and AOL. YAHOO and Hotmail do the same with attachments and also for spam scanning. I have a gmail account and thought this was a brilliant idea, no records are kept of the scanning, just like when you do a Google search and get AdSense or Related Pages info to the side of your search.

exactly. just look at the bottom of this page. chances are google has scanned your posts and put up relevant ads.
 
PRØBE said:
We will probably have to pay hard cash for our privacy in the near future.
Yeah, like paying to keep your phone number unlisted (at least with every major phone company I've had service with in the US).

For me Gmail will likely be most useful for mailing list archives, most which are already available online anyway (with interfaces I dislike) so I don't care how Google wants to scan them. I'll stick with other services (e.g. FastMail) for my personal e-mail.

Oh, it doesn't take long to crash Safari using Gmail so most of my testing has been with Firefox.
 
Macrumors said:
MacCentral interviews Google co-founder Sergey Brin who promises support for Safari for Google's newest service, Gmail, before it is publicly released.

Gmail is a webmail service which allows users to keep up to 1GB of messages, allowing users to search and organize them.

While the current Beta does not officially support Safari, users have been able log in with some success.

Gmail: Screenshots

I wonder when Gmail will come out of Beta?
 
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