I'm gonig to wait to see how easy it is to be hacked before I start flaming Google. I have yet t ohear what these three simple steps are, adn then I'll be critical of gmail. Personally, I think everybody's jumping on the I-hate-gmail bandwagon for no good reason, maybe they're just sick of hating Microsoft, adn need some one else to hate. As a gmail user, I know that gmail is much better than hotmail or Yahoo. And about the ads...sure, don't send highly confidential emails, but I have no problem with the ads. I don't even notice them most of the time, they're little text ads, not like the huge banners on Hotmail and Yahoo. I don't want to see Google turn into the next Microsoft. The difference is obvious too me: Microsoft selss $hitty products, Google produces great prudcts. For example: the best search engine on earth. So if you need some one to hate, hate me if you must...just don't hate Google.