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I recently read the news that Mail.ru has canceled the free eternal 100 GB for the first users of the Mail.ru Cloud.

At the end of October 2024, the Mail company (owned by VK) warned customers that it was canceling the free eternal 100 GB for the first users of the Mail.ru Cloud after 11 years of the start of the project.

Unfortunately, this is not the only innovation from the former free mail service, which is gradually beginning to commercialize its customer base, which is not at all surprising if a legislative ban has been introduced on the use of foreign mailers, and your mail is advertised on the State Services themselves as a replacement for the free, but unfortunately prohibited gmail.com.

But this is the background, and the story itself is here:

I have long noticed that when sending any letter to Mail.ru, the “Letter has been sent. You can cancel sending…” checkbox is displayed with a counter of the remaining seconds until cancellation, but I never reacted to this, always clicking the cross to close the window.

But one day, to my regret, I decided, out of curiosity, to see what would happen if I clicked on the “cancel sending” button.

And as it turned out, nothing good!

The sending of this particular letter was cancelled, but after that, when sending, a slightly different window began to be shown.

Buy a paid subscription to free mail for just a ruble! True, upon careful study of the classic fine print, it becomes clear that one ruble costs only the first 30 days, and then 79 rubles will be charged monthly for the opportunity to cancel a sent letter.

But I don’t need this functionality either for a ruble or for 79 rubles a month, so I chuckled and ignored such a generous offer. But as it turned out, this was not the case, and Mail.ru managers can be persistent in the style of the old Soviet classic “if they don’t take it, we’ll turn off the gas!”

Therefore, to motivate the user to make the right decision, they turned off, although not the gas, but the standard functionality of any mailers – a request for confirmation that the letter has been read. The button itself is there, but there is a padlock on it when you hover over it, a motivating block appears with an offer to pay for a super favorable tariff Mail Space.

And now the confirmation button for reading the letter is blocked, and for the opportunity to use this standard functionality they will forgive this very a penny ruble for the first thirty days, and then 79 rubles per month (to begin with).

In general, it seems that the commercialization of mail.ru users is in full swing.

And I suspect that many free Russian services will have this trend, since all free foreign alternatives are prohibited by law (of course, in our own interests), and it is not advisable for an ordinary or even an advanced average user to have their own mail server.