Perhaps the additional user trust is worth it?
But the other cost is searchability, which is a pain for a search-based email system. I don't think many people use labels very much.
But the other cost is searchability, which is a pain for a search-based email system. I don't think many people use labels very much.
It allows people to make the choice of whether they value privacy more than usability, or, it allows fine-grained control -- end-to-end for messages you care to keep private, but no encryption for the mails you don't care about, but want searchability (mailing lists, notification emails, package tracking, etc)
However, based on the experience of desktop search, I think pure client side search would probably have reasonable initialization time and space overhead, and would certainly make searches faster, at least compared to my current Gmail experience.
Just install Mozilla Thunderbird and use IMAP. Client side search, all your devices sync via IMAP, no ads, and free software.
Anyway, it's off topic.
Actually it does, sort of: Right click on you@example.com, choose Search Messages, then Save as Search Folder, then "Match all Messages" and, in "Select the folders to search", Inbox and Sent.
They make most of their money on Google search anyway - and with just the queries, no personal context as far as I know. No privacy issues arise here, in fact, it would probably work in incognito mode just as well.
Are there any numbers on how much profit they actually make on Google Mail?