Re:Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
by gtufano on Thursday February 07, 2013 @06:19AM
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Well, no. It's not the same thing.
Scanning my content so that you make more money is different from scanning my content so that I get less spam.
The second is a service.
If you don't encrypt your email (almost nobody does it) every server serving your email can access the email text. The point is what they do with it. If they use it to make something useful for me (allowing me to read email) that's OK. Targeting ads is, as a minimum, borderline...
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Re:Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
by StavrosK on Thursday February 07, 2013 @06:22AM
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You knew this when you signed up. Plus, it's not a privacy issue. No human is sitting there, reading your emails. How is the spam algorithm reading your emails fine from a privacy standpoint while the ads algorithm isn't?
Re:Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
by OGinparadise on Thursday February 07, 2013 @06:51AM
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How do you know Google doesn't create and store an ad profile based on what your email contents usually are? Example: StravosK is likely to have high cholesterol and too much debt.
Re:Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
by StavrosK on Thursday February 07, 2013 @06:54AM
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How do I know Microsoft (or any other provider) doesn't? This is a risk you accept when you give your data to third parties.
Re:Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
by OGinparadise on Thursday February 07, 2013 @02:35PM
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How do I know Microsoft (or any other provider) doesn't?
Anything can happen but Google admits that it scans your email to serve relevant ads. Now is that data deleted after that email or do they note that you have x, y and possibly z?