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Gmail Cracks Down on Third-Party Notifiers
crtfdgk writes "Recently, Google's gmail service has attempted to change login protocols to block third-party gmail notifiers that alert you to new email. Google has now taken it one step further and created a word-identification script filter as part of the login process. Personally, I find Google's gmail notifier annoying since it sits in my taskbar and doesn't have popup notification, unlike many other worthy Firefox or Mozilla plugins that feature gmail notification. Shouldn't I be free to use whatever third party software to check my email? Will we be seeing controls on browsers that can view gmail next?"
How do they log into their gmail account?
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There are also some other excellent choices. Hotmail comes to mind.
Hopefully my sarcasm isn't lost on anyone.
Will we be seeing controls on browsers that can view gmail next?
We have since the initial launch. Konqueror still doesn't work.
Okay, I'm out...
That was quick
anyways... don't send me more emails (for the love of god... i didn't even know you COULD slashdot an email address)
because you want to control the ping to one every ten minutes. Imagine if 3 million people had notifier on and they were pinging your server every ten seconds each. That's 300,000 hits per second. No good.
Gee, if only there were some way to track down those abusers by virtue of their abuse rather than the nature (third-party) of the app doing the checking. You know, some sort of identifier like an email address or something . . .
(You know I'm right because I used a foreign language phrase...)
Oooooh, you speak Freedom...sorry, couldn't resist
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
Good thing they give you a 1GB quota, isn't it?