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Why would anyone use this over Proton Mail or the gazillion alternatives if it treats people like shit.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Not saying its new. Just was surprised. They probably don't make much from it. Why put it in for a couple pennies (on a corporate level). I didn't think they were that greedy. I honestly hadn't seen this before because I rarely use gmail and have never used the promotions tab.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

A couple of pennies time a Billion users is a lot of pennies.

It is probably way less than a penny per user per day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

We learned this from meta didn't we? A user is worth about $15 a month?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I don't even know if this is true, but I'd love to know more.

Maybe we're worth £4 a month, but they just decided to pull a higher price out of their ass to dissuade everyone from paying.

I suspect the small amount of people who decide to pay will cost more in infrastructure, and causes more headaches to meta anyway.

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