kolemcrae

Wee yeah - it says they will no longer scan emails.... Instead they will use your youtube data, search data, website visit data etc.

Interesting - as an advertiser I generally recommend using the email address "sent from" as your main source of targeting but combining that with specific keywords within the gmail campaign can be super helpful at finding people at the exact right time.

I don't remember merging them. It must have happened years and years ago. I haven't worked for that company in a VERY long time.

Or, you know, let us unlink accounts or change the username, two pretty normal and reasonable things to request.

Oh man, mine too! I have to use the web app!

An interesting idea but I find it hard to see this taking off and becomming the norm. They need to sell it to Google or something so they don't have to rely on the browser.

Also, rewarding users with "premium content" or let them "donate it to publsihers" doesn't seem too realistic.

I like the idea but I see some major hurdles before this takes off.

It looks to me like they want to do a Netflix like system but for long form content. The $5 goes towards hiring a specific writer to do a specific in depth article (or series). Unless I am misunderstanding.

Only very slightly related:

When I was a teenager I made music under the name shark^^bait

The ^^ is what made it stand out from others.

The issue is there is no efficient way to search for that phrase with the special characters.

I have no idea if I can still find the absolutely god awful music I made back then.

Using the phrase match in google just searches for sharkbait which doesn't help at all.

It doesn't help that years later a little movie called Finding Nemo came out.

Yup. Every single image on my site is hosted there.... eek! :|