Microsoft poking fun at GMAIL with GMAIL MAN

[l0cke]

I can't tell if they wanted this to get out or not.

 

[Alone]

I can't tell if they wanted this to get out or not.

I'm going to go ahead and say this is not a Microsoft commercial.

 

[HeXen]

its something that everyone might as well get used to cause our kids already have. privacy will mostly be a thing of the past. the internet is as public as walking down the street with people you know around you.

 

[TwiceOver]

There's ads?

EDIT: I actually had to go look at my gmail to find them.

 

[Alone]

its something that everyone might as well get used to cause our kids already have. privacy will mostly be a thing of the past. the internet is as public as walking down the street with people you know around you.

Which is fine, because I'll communicate the same things via e-mail that I would with someone while out in public.

It's not the "I have nothing to hide" mentality, but rather the indifference I have towards anyone knowing what I'm talking about. I just don't care.

And I'm almost quite certain that there aren't people at Google HQ who sit there and read all my e-mail. That would be the worst job ever.

 

[Fox5]

I just have Thunderbird pull my email from gmail and then I don't see any ads.

Oh, and does Google's corporate solutions still show ads? It's a little annoying that something that's paid for would still have ads. (see, hulu+)

 

[SP33Demon]

I'd feel insecure as well if my (shtty) service was just passed by Gmail in total users. Hotmail is so 1998. In a couple more years Gmail will pass Yahoo as well.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Google makes their money on selling ad space. You really don't see why they would use the content of your emails to more accurately target you for certain ads?

I figured they used automated processes for this, no?

 

[SP33Demon]

its something that everyone might as well get used to cause our kids already have. privacy will mostly be a thing of the past. the internet is as public as walking down the street with people you know around you.

Email never was private, where have you been? The only thing that can't be subpeoned in court is the contents of a phone call (unless one party was taping it). Everything you type in an email can be recovered.

 

[MotionMan]

I'd feel insecure as well if my (shtty) service was just passed by Gmail in total users. Hotmail is so 1998. In a couple more years Gmail will pass Yahoo as well.

LOL. Just yesterday I logged into my Hotmail account (had since 01/02/00) to make sure the settings were good and that all the e-mails were being forwarded to my regular e-mail account (not a g-mail account, btw).

I have so many g-mail accounts, I have probably lost track of 50% of them. G-mail is great for preventing spam from finding my real e-mail address.

MotionMan

 

[Red Squirrel]

Email never was private, where have you been? The only thing that can't be subpeoned in court is the contents of a phone call (unless one party was taping it). Everything you type in an email can be recovered.

Assuming it's been logged somewhere or captured and saved by a packet sniffer.

But yeah, given it's clear text, it's not that hard to sniff so if someone is out to get you they could find a way to plant a packet sniffer between you and the server. In the case of gmail and other hosted mail services, then they may even have some kind of recycle bin you don't see so even if you delete an email it may still be there somewhere. That all depends on how they're setup though.

 

[HeXen]

but rather the indifference I have towards anyone knowing what I'm talking about. I just don't care.

And I'm almost quite certain that there aren't people at Google HQ who sit there and read all my e-mail. That would be the worst job ever.

And despite the fears of so many "oldschool" thinking privacy advocates, that indifference will one day be common world wide perception. the evolutionary ideology changes gradually each generation, sometimes faster and like you i quickly adapted to the idea that anything i say or do outside my home or virtually could be on record.
I'm sure if we went back into the 80's and told anyone they wouldn't beable to handle being without a cell phone and internet in 20 years time they would refuse to believe it.

 

[SP33Demon]

And despite the fears of so many "oldschool" thinking privacy advocates, that indifference will one day be common world wide perception. the evolutionary ideology changes gradually each generation, sometimes faster and like you i quickly adapted to the idea that anything i say or do outside my home or virtually could be on record.
I'm sure if we went back into the 80's and told anyone they wouldn't beable to handle being without a cell phone and internet in 20 years time they would refuse to believe it.

I'm sure many of us could live without internet and a cell phone. They just allow us to do things faster. Commercially, maybe not since all records have been converted from paper to digital but they could convert back if they had to. The opportunity cost is time.