Is it scumbag of them, or are we the scumbags for refusing to adopt any software unless it’s free?
Would you rather they parse all your private communications for advertising profile purposes and keep it free-as-in-Facebook?
It was basically a decade-plus free trial. I can’t see how that was a bad deal.
I pay for email(Fastmail) because I want to support the team working on keeping my main communication channel working smoothly, and would rather not have my emails parsed by the advertising surveillance state.
My inbox is almost full, so they're hassling me about this. I did some investigation and found that over 1GB of the data in my inbox is email history quotes from a long-running email chain. Of course it's impossible to delete those without deleting each email they belong to.
Conspiracy theory: Google refused to implement an option to disable inserting email quotes in responses, knowing that such an option would make more efficient use of storage space.
Would you rather they parse all your private communications for advertising profile purposes and keep it free-as-in-Facebook?
It was basically a decade-plus free trial. I can’t see how that was a bad deal.
I pay for email(Fastmail) because I want to support the team working on keeping my main communication channel working smoothly, and would rather not have my emails parsed by the advertising surveillance state.