"You need 1 catastrophic event or tragedy for every 167 words in the rest of the email." – http://homepage.mac.com/joester5/art/gmail.html

Before
http://homepage.mac.com/joester5/art/images/gmail1.jpg

After
http://homepage.mac.com/joester5/art/images/gmail2.jpg

Personally, I won't change my signature this way. For now :)

I actually tried the same thing after reading "Google Apps: The Missing Manual" last year but forgot to post about it!

[Reposted from FF]

It ignores it if it's in the signature.

I tried writing "This Sentence is to murder the ads in Gmail" but it only worked if it was in the main part of the message (above the --)

Fuuny. :)
But why people who send e-mails would do this, to prevent recipients from seeing ads besides their e-mails?

Never hear of Ad Block?

Adblock Plus is better and keeps your mental health :)

Zim
How much would you pay to use Gmail?

Jérôme
Google gets tons of value just from having access to the data. So if you're suggesting the service has to make money somehow, no, it doesn't.

What can I do to remove the ad at the bottom of this page? Or is it only wrong when someone else makes money off of online advertising?

I kinda feel bad using Safari AdBlock. I might disable it for Blogoscoped.

Lex
Everyone is used to seeing ads on the internet, and everyone is used to ignoring them. The difference is that google is more intrusive and Jerome is using that against them to disable the ad feature. Less anger at ads and more excitement over the hack...or at least that is my interpretation.