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onehandle

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3. Google is the world's largest ad spammer. Sells your profile to anyone who wants it...

Reply to Woody Woodpecker (Original post)

Tue May 15, 2012, 12:17 PM

May 2012

...based on your every interaction with the Internet, whether you are logged in or not, just as long as you have an account.

Use nothing Google.

Free ain't free.

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Have you used Google's new Gmail web interface? [View all] Woody Woodpecker May 2012 OP

If you have Outlook, you can receive gmail through it and not have these problems. CurtEastPoint May 2012 #1

I normally use it only on my phone but I just logged in. Shagbark Hickory May 2012 #2

Google is the world's largest ad spammer. Sells your profile to anyone who wants it... onehandle May 2012 #3

I prefer the new interface - lynne May 2012 #4

I couldn't read it anymore until I picked "High Contrast" from "Themes". nt Speck Tater May 2012 #5

I'm using just the lavender color theme and like it - lynne May 2012 #7

I dumped google & gmail over their spamming & privacy abuses. qb May 2012 #6