OH FUCK YOU, GOOGLE Look, so we can’t afford an iPhone. Whatever, AT&T service sucks anyway. What good is having a GPS on you at all times, anyway? And besides, that touch screen is impossible to type on. Yeah, we’re totally content with our generic flip phone. Oh, so what that the T9 feature doesn’t really work. Whatever. We can still send and receive text messages with it. Look, if we wanted to surf the internet, we’d get a computer. Just stop rubbing it in.
So, like everybody else with a basic understanding of the internet, we understand that convenience is often more important than privacy. In the case of Gmail, all that storage is worth the fact that Google reads our email for ads. It???s a bit awkward when relationship advice ads pop up on the side of emails with boyfriends, but whatever.
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Despite evidence to the contrary, ie our inbox, Google says it???s got the whole spam thing under control. The company claims that spam has leveled off and may even be declining. The reason: Gmail’s success at catching junk mail has discouraged spammers.
Organizing all of the world???s information is one thing, but claiming to end spam, that???s a hubris the Greek Gods would punish.
[Wired]