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From their privacy notice (referenced by Baddog):
"# Google maintains and processes your Gmail account and its contents to provide the Gmail service to you and to improve our services. The Gmail service includes relevant advertising and related links based on the IP address, content of messages and other information related to your use of Gmail.
"# Google's computers process the information in your messages for various purposes, including formatting and displaying the information to you, delivering advertisements and related links, preventing unsolicited bulk email (spam), backing up your messages, and other purposes relating to offering you Gmail."

I never really thought about how that would steal business from gmail users, but certainly the danger is there. I love gmail, but that aspect makes me a little hesitant...

yea, it is pretty messed up indeed...

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Originally Posted by TheDoc (Post 15408961)

I keep my admin, domain, accounting accounts.... business stuff.. on my main email accounts.

I use gmail for web forms, social sites, programs, blogs, membership purchases, anything that can and probably will get spam, goes here.

Now I don't have to sort through program bs, social spam, blog comment crap, membership ex-member spam, and all that bullshit. Google deals with it, and I get 99% spam free email without having to lift a finger.

You can also forward [email protected] to google and send back out from that address, so it never says @gmail. It's also a great backup when your host, mail server or the internet is being stupid.

I agree, for general shit mail that I know is going to get spammed to hell, I also have a yahoo adress, I check it once a month or if I just signde up to someting and dont wanna deal with all the shit that comes with........

But I would never approach anyone I intend to do business with through the use of g-mail, yahoo, aol, or any such shit. And anyone who approaches me through such means should expect that I might not take them to seriously, if I do at all.

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Originally Posted by baddog (Post 15408343)

Forgive me if I am wrong, but I seem to recall that they never hid that and that using their email allowed them to track your habits enough to spam you properly.

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/privacy.html

Yeh, that was one of the major concerns about using Gmail at its outset, as I recall.

Here are a buncha things that have always been problematic:
http://oreilly.com/pub/wlg/4707
http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/GmailAGadvisory.htm
http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/

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Originally Posted by The Sultan Of Smut (Post 15076534)

Most people would complain if the mail service was opeing your mail and sticking flyers in it but don't even shrug when Google does it, and with your correspondence saved for them to use for however long, it's even worse.

but you pay for the mail service, gmail is free

Never use a freee email service for anything remotely important or private...:2 cents:

Nothing is free. If you think it is, read the fine print.

SPIDERS, they're just as scary on the internet.

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Originally Posted by jmcb420 (Post 15409672)

But I would never approach anyone I intend to do business with through the use of g-mail, yahoo, aol, or any such shit. And anyone who approaches me through such means should expect that I might not take them to seriously, if I do at all.

You're a dumbass then... I've seen million dollar businesses use hotmail.

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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy (Post 15076357)

I talk about some crazy shit in my gmail and google ALWAYS has an ad that is on topic with what I'm talking about.

Strange.

That would explain the ads for the tranny dating sites...

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Originally Posted by InternetIsForPorn (Post 15076347)

Seriously, Gmail just robbed a company from a great deal I wanted to give them.

We had this long email discussion regarding me giving some great business to another company.

And just when I am about to send in the confirmation email, I see this ad in gmail.

Click, find a company that would do the same but for greater margins for me and that's it.

That company lost out on a great deal.

Do you think it's fair that gmail scans your emails like that?

solution: use a real email setup on your own domain. free email services are not free.

They are placing ads based on the subject of your conversation, that's not stealing is it?