AOL Tacks Ad to Bottom of E-Mail
Found on PhysOrg on Tuesday, 20 February 2007
The change, which began Tuesday, affects e-mails sent from AOL accounts using the internet provider's AOL 9.0 software, which is available to AOL's 13 million paid subscribers and others who have downloaded the program.
E-mails sent through AOL's Webmail service, which is available for free on the company's Web site, have had the ads attached for about eight months, said AOL spokeswoman Anne Bentley.
Bentley said the ad is a reminder to people, especially those paying for AOL service, that many products like e-mail are now available for free.
Users get flooded with ads everywhere, especially in emails if you count in spam. For free services, this move is easy to understand; after all, they have to make some money to cover their costs. Paying customers should not see any of those; but then AOL has never been famous for good customer relations.