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Comment by chmars | Hacker News Reader

You can use Gmail without ads if you pay USD 50/year/user for Google Apps for Business:

https://support.google.com/a/answer/60758?hl=en

Unfortunately those will come at the price that your Google account works slight differently (in regards to G+, YouTube, Maps, GTalk, Docs, ...). It's more than just removing ads. Unfortunately. I was very close to moving my personal Gmail Apps for Business with my domain but decided against because of all the side effects. I really wish Google would offer a clean "Pay for your personal Google account". Just no ads anywhere. That's all.

Agreed. I have no end of trouble with the couple business GApps domains I admin, I'd happily pay for an ad free personal account.

I think the adoption of something like this would be pretty low, the return on which may not even cover the outlay on marketing to make it known that a pay-for-no-ads option exists.

I don't disagree with those of you who were a bit surprised to find this application blocks all ads indiscriminately. I also find Google's ads to be the least intrusive on the block. One need only login to Yahoo! Mail to realize how unobtrusive Google's ads are.

Microsoft thinks it's worth $20 for an Ad-free Outlook.com.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/ad-free-outlook

You can still continue to use your private Google account for Google+ etc.

A major issue would be the migration of your data from your private Google account to a Google Apps account. There is no direct migration path, you basically have to download all your data and upload it again. If you have a high number of mails, it might take weeks since download/upload are rate-limited.

I did the same evaluation with the same conclusion a while back too. How much do they make per year on the ads I see? Why not let me bid for my own eyes? They can't come out worse. Somewhere in the serving of the ads, they check my profile to see what kind of ads to use for me, why not let me purchase a "blank" ad across swaths of my own activity?

without ads* I suppose. (and thanks for the link)

Yep, I've just corrected the typo …

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