Because we've weighed the costs and benefits? I don't use it for anything particularly important--it gets to see the coupons Borders sends me, the HN Monthly, and that's about it.
I don't personally use these services, so I can't confirm this myself, but does anyone know if this statement is/could be true?
"On the one hand it is free, but then so are Hotmail and Yahoo - which both also rely on advertising, but which don't appear to trawl through your emails and hit you with intrusive ads within milliseconds."
I find it hard to believe that Yahoo and Hotmail don't target ads... seems to me that maybe Google just does a better job.
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I find it hard to believe that Yahoo and Hotmail don't target ads... seems to me that maybe Google just does a better job.
However, I'm not sure if Google wants my money. Life is easy with an ad-based service.