Free Google GMail; The high price you pay — “GMail is free to use, but its users are actually selling themselves cheap; Google furthers its monetization of the world’s information by acquiring, cost-free, a treasure trove of personal and business communications data from its users. GMail users, however, are not being compensated by Google for its profiting from the mining of their data.”

This is such lame argument. People are getting something from Google: email. It isn’t free but many people don’t mind the tradeoff. People use services all the time that are “free” but not free. They are willing to give up a lot of information for goodie bags, free t-shirts, and other handouts. It is safe to move along. No little monkies have been harmed.