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No, Google clearly demonstrated that they are evil.

For whatever reason -- it doesn't matter in the slightest -- they decided not to very carefully think through what type of formerly private embedded information they had garnered through gmail, picasa, and reader. They then went and shared this information in an, at best, very difficult to understand and disable manner with a group of people that I didn't choose nor desire to share with. All in an effort to bootstrap their fb/twitter competitor.

To recap: in order to make money, they shared my private information to benefit no one but themselves.

Dear YC folks: now is a perfect time to write a self-hostable gmail clone.

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