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[cops]

http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/

Does anyone ever read the tos?

I wish I had found this before I made one.
Think twice before you get a gmail account.

[brainet]

i never read the tos, but so far it's fine for me.

[htdefiant]

I put the TOS through EULA Analyzer and it came up just fine. I have not had any problems yet.

[moldboy]

Frankly Google is as we speak (or type, same thing) is fighting the supreme court to keep information they have gathered private. Now I assume the case has nothing to do with email. But if they are willing to fight to keep information that any intrested party could gather themselves (web crawler information) private then I have no fear of them keeping my emails.

You may also note that there is no way to contact the makers of this website (that I can see anyway)

[Kioku]

It's not THAT bad. But yeah, unless if you have anything to hide, nothing to be afraid of. That does exagerate gmail a bit much.

[michaelper22]

A lot of the stuff on that site is wrong. The example of bad ad-matching is weird, and I can't even understand what they are talking about. For most normail users of Gmail who don't spam or talk about anything illegal, they should be fine.

[FirefoxRocks]

I think the article is completely wrong.

First of all, I don't even understand "bad ad-matching", I mean AdBlock on Firefox can block Google Ads. Who cares?
Secondly, personal info can be searched out in profiles such as MySpace, Bebo, hi5, Yahoo! 360, Blogger and a lot of other sites. Name, address, phone number, postal/ZIP code can be searched in phone book listings. So that is available anyways.

Google will take over the world's information system someday, and no-one will go against it.

[Limez]

i have used gmail for ages and i have no problems so i dont know where they get that from.

Edited by Limez, 11 May 2006 - 08:30 PM.

[apurva]

hey i agree that its creepy but who cares about personal info being with them..many sites have.

[moldboy]

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hey i agree that its creepy but who cares about personal info being with them..many sites have.

Yeah that's right, I thing I gave some of my personal information to trap17 when I signed up, and no offence but I think I trust google more.