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August 29, 2004
Gmail Cracks Down on Third-Party Notifiers
From slashdot.org
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?"
I wanted to write a Gmail notifier tool which would support multi-account and caught "mailto:" click on web pages, but I want to wait for a while to see if Google will release a Gmail API, now Google told us it didn't like any third party tools.
Recently Google also gave out lots of Gmail invites, I received more than 20 in the past week, is it a sign Google will open Gmail to the public soon?
Category : Google
Posted by dvd software at August 29, 2004 11:15 AM
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