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I’m with you but if all my friends and colleagues still use it, Google continues to have a whole lot of my info, eh?
by hanklazard 4y ago
I’m with you but if all my friends and colleagues still use it, Google continues to have a whole lot of my info, eh?
- neilv 4y agoYears ago, a dear friend who used to run his own servers, and was even on the board of one of those Internet public interest nonprofits... gave up and moved his email to GMail. Now, I'm still self-hosting, but most of my private email is nevertheless being archived and farmed by a company, because almost everyone I talk with is using them. Sigh.
- philjohn 4y agoEmail has never been "private" per se, it's unencrypted as it flies across the internet. If you want privacy, you need to add a layer of encryption on top.
- sokoloff 4y agoIt’s mostly encrypted in transit (on the wire) now. For such mail, each mail transfer agent can still read it, but network devices cannot.
- benhurmarcel 4y agoMost of my non-professional emails are notifications from services, like purchases or whatever. Personal communication is almost 100% in chat apps nowadays. I suspect it's the case for most people. So no, in that case it's not a whole lot of info.