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You don't have to click on an ad to be tracked. Also, you don't find it even a little concerning that Google reads all your email?
by Mc_Big_G 7y ago
You don't have to click on an ad to be tracked. Also, you don't find it even a little concerning that Google reads all your email?
- neverminder 7y agoIf not Google then who? Fastmail? Protonmail? Someone will always read our emails, I just don't see a way around it. We kinda live in a world based on trust, maybe someday that will change, but probably not any time soon.
- mda 7y agoEmail is not something private by design. At least Google is a competent company when it comes to provide such services.
- beat 7y agoThey don't read your email, they scan it. These things are semantically and practically different. Reading, to me, means human comprehension. It's not like some Google employee is going through my messages. Scanning is just robots putting keywords in a database to target ads. Which is annoying, but it's not really the same, privacy-wise.
- neverminder 7y agoAlso to my understanding they don't touch the GSuite email accounts. There was actually someone here from the relevant Google team few months ago confirming that they go to great lengths to ensure that didn't happen. I can't dig up that particular comment though.
- andyjpb 7y agoYou don't have to be a GMail user for Google to end up with a copy of a large percentage of your eMail. Because lots of users do have GMail a lot of your messages will end up on their servers. However, that's not to say it's not a good idea to practice good hygiene yourself and find a provider that suits your goals.