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Friday, April 8, 2005 by Mithun Pal | Discussion: Internet
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starkers
Reply #62 Friday, November 18, 2005 12:08 PM
Exactly...and Google counts on the naive, ill-informed and dimwits to do their dirty work...they're without scruples
A niece of mine recently got herself a Gmail account and was plagued by porn spam, free music spam, cheap precscription drugs spams.....all because her husband clicked on an music related ad, placed in an email from an army buddy regarding their band.
Needless to say, common sense prevailed and their Gmail account has been deleted from their PC.
Reply #62 Friday, November 18, 2005 12:08 PM
| Anyone with half a brain can see that as intrusive...but most are blinded by the gigs of storage...and cliquish 'invites' that make this crap advertising venture look groovy. |
Exactly...and Google counts on the naive, ill-informed and dimwits to do their dirty work...they're without scruples
A niece of mine recently got herself a Gmail account and was plagued by porn spam, free music spam, cheap precscription drugs spams.....all because her husband clicked on an music related ad, placed in an email from an army buddy regarding their band.
Needless to say, common sense prevailed and their Gmail account has been deleted from their PC.
YBWZRD
Reply #63 Friday, November 18, 2005 12:26 PM
Reply #63 Friday, November 18, 2005 12:26 PM
Then you're just stubborn. GMAIL is safe, if it wasn't there would be articles on magazines and websites about the insecurity of GMAIL. It IS safe, the is a correct method to delete email forever (as been posted before) and if you can see there's also a deleted mail folder where you can erase EVERY mail forever too. Don't say you know how to use GMAIL n00b if you actully don't know everything.
kona0197
Reply #64 Friday, November 18, 2005 3:11 PM
Reply #64 Friday, November 18, 2005 3:11 PM
Gmail might be safe if your talking about viruses. But the ads need to stop. Read what Jafo said. The ads are very intrusive.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #65 Friday, November 18, 2005 7:47 PM
Reply #65 Friday, November 18, 2005 7:47 PM
My ISP identifies gmail as spam and deletes it before it reaches me. Quite right too... 
starkers
Reply #66 Friday, November 18, 2005 10:43 PM
Stubborn only in the fact that there's no convincing me Gmail is a good thing to have...it is not. I am exercising my right to be cautious of a practice I cannot trust, and you've confused that with mule headedness?
Never said I knew how to use it...there's more than enough bad experiences published all over the net and elsewhere for me to know that I don't want to know. Having said that, to each his own, and if you're happy to use it, then that's your perogative, and mine not to.
I value my privacy too much to be bombarded by invasive ads that try to manipulate my shopping habits...they're not up for grabs.
That may be the case regarding the actual email itself, but as my neice's husband discovered, much to their horror, inadvertantly clicking on an ad can open you up to an array of unwelcomed nasties....browser hijackers; malware; spyware; adware; trojans and viruses, etc. These are consequences that the 'bright spark' organisers don't see, and as such, obviously don't care about.
Furthermore, this invitation scheme is not dissimilar to pyramid selling. Ok, so maybe no money actually changes hands upon sign ups, but ultimately, the whole idea is about the perpetual generation of advertising revenues, and the possible consequenses to the end user can be expensively horrendous. Legal loopholes may enable this practice, but that don't make it right.
Reply #66 Friday, November 18, 2005 10:43 PM
| Then you're just stubborn. |
Stubborn only in the fact that there's no convincing me Gmail is a good thing to have...it is not. I am exercising my right to be cautious of a practice I cannot trust, and you've confused that with mule headedness?
| Don't say you know how to use GMAIL n00b if you actully don't know everything. |
Never said I knew how to use it...there's more than enough bad experiences published all over the net and elsewhere for me to know that I don't want to know. Having said that, to each his own, and if you're happy to use it, then that's your perogative, and mine not to.
I value my privacy too much to be bombarded by invasive ads that try to manipulate my shopping habits...they're not up for grabs.| Gmail might be safe if your talking about viruses. |
That may be the case regarding the actual email itself, but as my neice's husband discovered, much to their horror, inadvertantly clicking on an ad can open you up to an array of unwelcomed nasties....browser hijackers; malware; spyware; adware; trojans and viruses, etc. These are consequences that the 'bright spark' organisers don't see, and as such, obviously don't care about.
Furthermore, this invitation scheme is not dissimilar to pyramid selling. Ok, so maybe no money actually changes hands upon sign ups, but ultimately, the whole idea is about the perpetual generation of advertising revenues, and the possible consequenses to the end user can be expensively horrendous. Legal loopholes may enable this practice, but that don't make it right.
scorpio-logic
Reply #67 Friday, November 18, 2005 11:25 PM
Reply #67 Friday, November 18, 2005 11:25 PM
I'm tired of Gmail already. If it's free there's a string attached. And why start a text war over email? There's lots of email providers. People should try not to FORCE their opinions on others, even if it is a great product/service. Have a nice day.
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Reply #61 Friday, November 18, 2005 11:24 AM
Really, I'm just happy I have an anti-virus scanner, anti-spyware scanner, and search engine that magically know just what they need to do. If any one of those things actually accessed my sensitive, sensitive data like how big my cat Nibblers has gotten, I'd be ruined!
I, for one, say down with the ad-based businesses!