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

  • @[email protected]OP
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    21 year ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      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.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          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.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          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’

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      01 year ago

      Ads in those categories aren’t a couple of pennies. Those are upwards of $45-$50 per click! Possibly even more since they’re disguised to look like emails.