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When I first saw Google Trips I thought that it was so great. It was so useful to have an automated tool that grouped all my trips' bookings and travel arrangem

When I first saw Google Trips I thought that it was so great. It was so useful to have an automated tool that grouped all my trips' bookings and travel arrangements. Then I was like: "Waiiiit a minute! They're reading ALL my emails...OMFG.". I am now migrating towards Fastmail one provider at a time.

maehwasu 7y ago
Yup, this was the wake-up call for me. I know everyone here is like "duh of course they look at everything," but sometimes it takes a concrete case to really feel what that means. I switched to Protonmail soon after that, and honestly I barely miss Gmail at all now. I just changed my workflow to not use email as a catchall for everything that I needed to be able to search.
cycrutchfield 7y ago
Why are you anthropomorphizing an algorithm?
- culot 7y ago
  Don't you think you could get your point across without being obtuse and patronizing? "It's not like individual employees are reading your mail, its just an algorithm that handles it automatically." That could have been a cooler move.
- solitus 7y ago
  Companies are moral persons.
gowld 7y ago
Fastmail also has to read your email in order to transfer it from the sender to your browser.