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The only reason you get 1 gig is because the people at Google can read all the emails you have sent and emails in your inbox. I can't believe no one has mentioned this. so if you don't mind people invading your privacy by reading all the emails you send and recieve go ahead and sign up.

This is why i'm not signing up for this shit.

Originally posted by Adam R The only reason you get 1 gig is because the people at Google can read all the emails you have sent and emails in your inbox. I can't believe no one has mentioned this. so if you don't mind people invading your privacy by reading all the emails you send and recieve go ahead and sign up.This is why i'm not signing up for this shit.

It's not as if Google's hired an army of people to spy on everyone's e-mails, but Google's e-mail system computers scan your messages in order to put relevant google ads on the right hand part of your screen. You must be truly naive to think Google has actual people reading your messages.

Originally posted by Adam R The only reason you get 1 gig is because the people at Google can read all the emails you have sent and emails in your inbox. I can't believe no one has mentioned this. so if you don't mind people invading your privacy by reading all the emails you send and recieve go ahead and sign up.This is why i'm not signing up for this shit.

You must be very very naive if you don't believe that whomever is providing your email right now has the right and ability to read your email...even if they aren't I can guarantee you that your government has access to their mail system. Either that or you work for Microsoft or Yahoo.

Originally posted by Adam R The only reason you get 1 gig is because the people at Google can read all the emails you have sent and emails in your inbox. I can't believe no one has mentioned this. so if you don't mind people invading your privacy by reading all the emails you send and recieve go ahead and sign up.This is why i'm not signing up for this shit.

You have a point. I was on ziplip, which was a "secure" provider - even had the https thing going on. Then I realised that matters diddly squat to anyone who really wanted to read my email, and ziplip was very very slow, and just 2.5mb.

If anyone really wants to read your email, they proberbally can. if the state decide to, they will. Chances are, they wont be bothered, and if they could be bothered, you should really be more careful with how you communicate

Google screen for certain words to place ads in the corner of the page. Talking about a certain film with a mate? then they will offer to sell it to you, or amazon will. This beats spam or small inboxes anyhow. As far as im aware, the US governmnet uses similar screening technologies, which proberbally "read" passively this site too. On Mayday in 98 i think, there was a campaign to shut down cia servers for a few days - which basically involved everyone who had the inclination to, writing "communist, terrorist, etc" at the bottom of an email - it worked too.

So : if you want to express your heartfelt meaning toward a girl, or bring down the state, or - preferbaly - both, dont email.

If you want to email your friend on holiday, or organise a get together - use GMAIL, or EMAIL - theres not a big "security" difference between the 2

Originally posted by Adam R The only reason you get 1 gig is because the people at Google can read all the emails you have sent and emails in your inbox. I can't believe no one has mentioned this. so if you don't mind people invading your privacy by reading all the emails you send and recieve go ahead and sign up.This is why i'm not signing up for this shit.

Hotmail can do that too

As can your ISP

Or the NSA

If you want to be paranoid, be paranoid for a good reason, not a shitty one like "they're targeting ads at me". They do that on your web searches already ffs.

Originally posted by Adam R The only reason you get 1 gig is because the people at Google can read all the emails you have sent and emails in your inbox. I can't believe no one has mentioned this. so if you don't mind people invading your privacy by reading all the emails you send and recieve go ahead and sign up.This is why i'm not signing up for this shit.

Oh, just noticed you live in the UK. That means the UK is already scanning all the mail you send and receive if sent/received by POP/STMP/IMAP4 anyway. So surely having your mail on servers in Ireland and having it digitally scanned for use for advertising is better than having it on servers in Cumbria and being scanned for terrorism?

Thanks Nick. Looks like they've dispensed with the "invite 6 people" option now though, it isn't present this morning.

cheers, conor!

Originally posted by E.Costello Thanks Nick. Looks like they've dispensed with the "invite 6 people" option now though, it isn't present this morning.

Its not a permanent option. You only get given a finite amount of invites every few days (or weeks as it has been sometimes).

Also you get none if you don't use the account.

Don't you have to be invited to join Orkut as well.

Originally posted by Casey Ryback Don't you have to be invited to join Orkut as well.

Yes but each Orkut user has unlimited invites

Orkut is blocked by the proxy here but when I'm back onto a dialup I can invite anyone here.