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comment by Wintermute
Wintermute  ·  4525 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Yahoo!'s great new email update
Hasn't gmail always done this? Given its success, I think it's safe to say the majority don't care.




lessismore  ·  4525 days ago  ·  link  ·  
People do care. It is just that most people do not know what is happening. They blindly drink the "Do No Evil" cool-aid without realizing exactly what they are giving up for service.
b_b  ·  4525 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yeah, Gmail has done this since the beginning. I don't think that's why its popular, and I question Yahoo's wisdom on this. Maybe its that much more valuable, but maybe someone can sue them for invasion of privacy one sunny day and win. We're not their subordinates, but they will treat us that way until we stop letting them.
thenewgreen  ·  4525 days ago  ·  link  ·  
It's stupid for yahoo to do it because they are at a different stage in their products life cycle than Google is. Yahoo is no longer the young, hip kid on the block. People shrug when I tell them I use a yahoo email account (which is 100% why I still use it). The market share that yahoo mail has is far more fragile than gmail's.
b_b  ·  4525 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I use it because I got that email address in about 1997 when I could still get firstnamelastname@yahoo.com. I can't get rid of it for that reason.
thenewgreen  ·  4525 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I can understand that. Luckily, my last name isn't that common. Though I had to go with steven instead of steve with gmail. Steve was already taken.
thenewgreen  ·  4525 days ago  ·  link  ·  
The majority don't care, you're right. If Facebook doesn't prove this, then I don't know what does..? Zuckerberg could literally announce that Facebook was going to store everyones photos and sell them to chinese picture frame manufacturers and the rate by which people upload personal photo's wouldn't slow down. Privacy will not be a factor until it is too late. Question is, when will that be, what will it take?
Wintermute  ·  4523 days ago  ·  link  ·  
It seems to me that it's already too late. Didn't Zuckerburg say something like "privacy is dead" a long time ago? I fear the sentiment behind that possibly made up quote may be right because a critical mass of people just don't care.
thenewgreen  ·  4522 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yes, you can read what he said here. The sentiment is right. People don't care about their privacy concerns right now, but there could be a tipping point. If there were to be a high profile case that received a lot of media scrutiny -involving somebody getting harmed or taken advantage of because of identity theft etc, it could ruin them. The mob is fickle.