Wednesday, May 05, 2004
LOOSE wire: Hotmail, Yahoo Deny Scanning Emails
This blog entry: LOOSE wire: Hotmail, Yahoo Deny Scanning Emails generated this response from me:
"What GMail is doing is simply filtering for keywords on the assembled mail and if they are 'saving' this to build TiVo-style advertising profiles then this could be problematic without receiving advance permission. I would definitely have a problem with that if there wasn't an opt-out option.
They should consider offering a pay option with no ads and shut up the detractors for good. Those who don't want the ads could then pay for it."
"What GMail is doing is simply filtering for keywords on the assembled mail and if they are 'saving' this to build TiVo-style advertising profiles then this could be problematic without receiving advance permission. I would definitely have a problem with that if there wasn't an opt-out option.
They should consider offering a pay option with no ads and shut up the detractors for good. Those who don't want the ads could then pay for it."
TD 3:07 PM