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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by stavros on Sunday October 23, 2022 @03:57AM (#33305356)
> Buy Fastmail account (seriously, they should pay us money for advertising them so much).

They do pay us money, that's what the referral fee is.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by justsomehnguy on Monday October 24, 2022 @04:36PM (#33322369)
I know (and I even had one) but that's for users who actually bothered to use a referral, not for ones who saw so much adver^W mentions and just got an account.

I was being a bit sarcastic there, though. If anything, new clients => company receives money to stay afloat.

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