BBC News is reporting that California Democratic Senator Liz Figueroa is drawing up legislation to stop gmail over privacy issues: that Google will read all your private email sent/received through the gmail service and use the contents of your messages for targetted ads.
Bad Scenario: you are at work sending a quick private email to let your wife know that your sister called to let you know that your neice got a cold sore on her face: Up pops a big advert on your computer screen asking if you need medicine for Herpes and Cold Sores... co-workers see this!
The way I look at it is: why do people need 1gb of email storage... that's what your PC/Laptop/Pocket PC etc is for, set your email client to leaves messages on the server for a few days (in case you accidentally delete something you need) and 10mb of email storage should be emough for the average user.
Personally I would rather pay a domain registration company like Dotster or GoDaddy an extra 10 or 20 bucks a year to get email with my own domain name and no advertising.
It's free. Wait.. Nothing is really free.
If anyone wants this they have to deal with the ads. That's the cost.
I don't understand why people have issues with this. The google police aren't coming around and forcing anyone to do this.
Google doesn't use "big adverts" they use small, unobtrusive text advertisements. And if you don't want to use something don't use it and don't try to legislate it out of existence.
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I want g-mail account, and it sure is nice