If people think that other mail providers don't do this too, then they have blinders on. Do you have any idea how easy it is to intercept email on a normal email server? It doesn't have to be webmail, and it doesn't have to be Google. Microsoft (or whoever) can claim that because they don't show ads based on the context of your email it means they're not "reading it" all they want but I'm sorry, it's not true.

If you don't want people reading your email, you should be encrypting it. Period. It's foolish to think anything you do online is in any way "private".

This video is quite disingenuous. They're comparing Microsoft's PAID service to Google's FREE service (ad-supported). Google also has a business solution that is ad free.

Also, it is not a person reading your email, it is a computer algorithm looking at keywords in an effort to make the ads relevant to you. Big difference.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

What keeps this from being a great parody is that they didn't even bother to register http://www.pharmacuetico.com/

Microsoft has never gotten the Web - and they still don't.

I couldn't watch the whole thing. I have trouble watching people try to make fun of things they don't understand.

Can be ad-free, but you have to disable the ads.

And how do you know they're comparing gmail free to Office 365?!

And it doesn't matter if an algorithm is doing it, or a human, because something is plugged in to be able to do it, which means someone could be doing it, too. If the algorithm was never intended to allow for this, it wouldn't be the first time code could be exploited to do more than that.

I'm not suggesting google is evil, and Microsoft is saintly. Just saying there is a legitimate concern.

>> ^MaxWilder:

This video is quite disingenuous. They're comparing Microsoft's PAID service to Google's FREE service (ad-supported). Google also has a business solution that is ad free.
Also, it is not a person reading your email, it is a computer algorithm looking at keywords in an effort to make the ads relevant to you. Big difference.

http://adland.tv/commercials/microsoft-office365-gmail-man-microsoft-global-exchange-conference for a mirror.