• magic_lobster_party@kbin.run
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    8 months ago

    Being a bit nostalgic, but Gmail was such a leap forward when it was released. In a world where everybody took the shittiness of hotmail for granted, using Gmail was like peeking into the future. In many ways it was.

    Now Gmail is that shitty hotmail we took for granted.

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          8 months ago

          It certainly was cool and popular from day one. However, it was also spyware from day one. Tech magazines wrote reviews about it, but the hype train was going so fast at the time that people somehow ignored the privacy aspect.

          Nowadays people are beginning to realize just how evil it has always been.