Why would anyone use this over Proton Mail or the gazillion alternatives if it treats people like shit.

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      11 months ago

      They’ve only recently started making the ads look like unread emails to try to trick you into clicking them.

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      Not saying its new. Just was surprised. They probably don’t make much from it. Why put it in for a couple pennies (on a corporate level). I didn’t think they were that greedy. I honestly hadn’t seen this before because I rarely use gmail and have never used the promotions tab.

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        A couple of pennies time a Billion users is a lot of pennies.

        It is probably way less than a penny per user per day.

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            I don’t even know if this is true, but I’d love to know more.

            Maybe we’re worth £4 a month, but they just decided to pull a higher price out of their ass to dissuade everyone from paying.

            I suspect the small amount of people who decide to pay will cost more in infrastructure, and causes more headaches to meta anyway.

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            No we didn’t. We learned they were required to offer an ‘ad tracking free’ experience and that they priced it at $15/month. As that experience only exists as a result of a law suit - we have no idea what a user is worth.

            Because they were limited by what they could charge to ‘sounds reasonable’ and ‘unlikely to cause further lawsuits’