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Google Chrome Dear Sophie
About this video
Google's "Dear Sophie" Chrome ad, in which a father emails his daughter's life moments to her future self over the years. It portrays an email account as a lifelong keepsake.
Why it appears in the archive
Brought up ironically in threads about Google deleting inactive accounts and tightening storage policies, as a reminder that Google once encouraged this kind of long-term use.
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From the Hacker News discussion
Kind of ironic since I recall an early Gmail ad showed a father opening an account for his infant, then giving to the child as it got older. Correction: technically a Chrome ad, yet very heavy use of Gmail. Maybe the trick is to not open it in their exact name? (In the ad they use "dear{name}@gmail.com) [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗A policy change that sabotages an idea that Google itself gave many people just a few years ago. Google's "Dear Sophie" ad: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Ironically, this was exactly the theme of Google's "Dear Sophie" ad [1] a few years ago. [1] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗I feel like this ad from Google is relevant: [VIDEO] 8 years of work for nothing. --- ("Dear Sophie" - about a Father using Gmail as a Diary to share with his Daughter someday)
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