On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:18 AM, billhansen <[email protected]>wrote:
> The New York Times reports today that very soon, users of Gmail Plus will > be able to send emails to anyone, even if they don't have the recipient's > email address. According to the Times Google just announced this on January > 9. It is not a proposal or anything hypothetical; it's an > accomplished fact, "the latest move by Google to weave its social network > into all of its products and to strongly push users to sign up for Google > Plus.". The new "feature" will be On by default, but supposedly Gmail users > will be able to turn it Off in the "Settings" dropdown of Gmail. > > I'm wondering how much money the various mass marketers paid Google to > implement this. In other times this invasion of privacy would prompt > thousands of people to defect from Google, but we've all become so used to > "sharing" every bit of our selves that Google apparently decided there was > money to be made, with little downside risk. > > We all need to watch our emails carefully, and then attend to our Settings > (opt out), if we don't want to drown in a tsumani of mass marketing. Once > those mailing floodgates are open, I think all of us, whether we're Gmail > Plus users or not, will soon be on everybody's mass mailing list, spending > a lot of time trying to separate our legitimate email from the marketings. > I guess we also need to be thinking about alternatives to Gmail. I like > Gmail a lot - but I sure don't like spam. > In the settings you are supposed to be able to turn this off. It has not been turned on for me yet so I cannot see the setting that needs to be turned off. Btw, it is Google Plus, not Gmail Plus. Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
