I wish I had the time, skills, and inclination to manage my own web server, but I don’t. They don’t need us any more, they know us better than we know ourselves. What a mercantile view of the internet, google! Just because I have a domain name doesn’t mean I am a businessman! Anyway I see their point of view, they already data mined the shit out of our private correspondence. By “small business” they mean anyone with their own domain. More importantly, they want to charge “small businesses” for using the google mail servers. And once logged in, the UI forgets what the original link was and you are just left there. And then of course if you follow the link, out of curiosity more than goodwill, you have to login first.
The mail didn’t even tell me which settings exactly are troubling them. And then a link to change my privacy settings. They sent an email to one of my free accounts which simply said “A quick reminder that showing ads is the primary way we fund our services”. Not only the search engine is losing its edge, but ad revenue is going down.
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