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by thiago_fm 881 days ago
Nah, it was only groundbreaking if you were using Yahoomail.

Sure, they were innovative to use XHR along lots of Javascript to improve the experience, but what got people into were the 1GB + no ads.

Nowadays, they probably offer one of the worst email experience, with ads and terrible privacy. How many times have we heard about the US government reading emails from other governments countries, like US spying on ex-presidents from Brazil regarding oil companies?

Google had also the coolness factor of the "don't be evil" and being overall a lean and trustful company. Nowadays nobody thinks of Google like this.

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Your issues with Gmail seem to be the sort that would desolate with privacy wonk nerds, which I suspect are immaterial from Google’s perspective.