Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?

Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by baby on Friday July 19, 2013 @06:25PM (#6073366)

might be inevitable for Google. Might not be for another clever service provider, or might not be for a paying-solution.

Either way, Gmail is going down with things like that. Internet is one space where people can choose not to have ads, and nobody likes ads.

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by ChuckMcM on Saturday July 20, 2013 @09:22PM (#6077370)

I agree but I suspect the choices are subscriptions or ads. As the Internet has matured the 'free' option is going away. Developers of course will be able to fund their own infrastructure (sort of a self subscribe model :-) but the 'free' internet is definitely going away.

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Re:Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails? by baby on Sunday July 21, 2013 @09:39AM (#6078744)

> the 'free' internet is definitely going away.

I really don't see that, we still have a huge number of free application. Maybe google is having some issues (google reader and gmail) but you still have a huge number of alternatives that are still free.

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