Hm... On "euthanizing G-Mail" (&/or Google et al)

Opinion | Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I’m Sorry I’m Leaving You. (Ezra Klein)

When Google unveiled Gmail 20 years ago, everyone wanted in — but you needed an invite, our Opinion columnist Ezra Klein writes. He remembers the thrill of finding one: “I felt lucky. I felt chosen.”

"There is no end of theories for why the internet feels so crummy these days. The New Yorker blames the shift to algorithmic feeds. Wired blames a cycle in which companies cease serving their users and begin monetizing them. The M.I.T. Technology Review blames ad-based business models. The Verge blames search engines. I agree with all these arguments. But here’s another: Our digital lives have become one shame closet after another."

#GMail #Google #privacy #algorithms #DataScraping #monetizing #GoogleIs#vil #technology