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Google reads your Gmail. They admit it. They've never hidden it, as far as I know. If you choose to use Gmail, you've chosen to let Google's computers read, ana
by leephillips 5y ago
Google reads your Gmail. They admit it. They've never hidden it, as far as I know. If you choose to use Gmail, you've chosen to let Google's computers read, analyse, and store information about the contents of your email.
- jvolkman 5y agoAll email providers that want customers analyze and store information about the content of emails so they can provide features such as spam filtering and search.
- leephillips 5y agoAnother reason for me to be glad that I don’t use an email provider. But is this true? Does Protonmail do this?
- joshuamorton 5y agoIt appears so: https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/spam-filtering/ https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/spam-filtering... (I work on Gmail, but that shouldn't really be relevant here)
- leephillips 5y agoThe link, and the custom filter page that it links to, only talk about filtering by sender address and subject line, not by email content. (Although the Subject header is part of the email body.)
- passivate 5y ago>If you choose to use Gmail, Google also does that if I don't use Gmail but send email to someone with a Gmail account, or send email to an address that forwards to a gmail account, etc.
- leephillips 5y agoGood point. I guess all we can do is try to educate people.