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Well, no. It's not the same thing. Scanning my content so that you make more money is different from scanning my content so that I get less spam. The second is
by gtufano 14y ago
Well, no. It's not the same thing.
Scanning my content so that you make more money is different from scanning my content so that I get less spam.
The second is a service.
If you don't encrypt your email (almost nobody does it) every server serving your email can access the email text. The point is what they do with it. If they use it to make something useful for me (allowing me to read email) that's OK. Targeting ads is, as a minimum, borderline...
- StavrosK 14y agoYou knew this when you signed up. Plus, it's not a privacy issue. No human is sitting there, reading your emails. How is the spam algorithm reading your emails fine from a privacy standpoint while the ads algorithm isn't?
- OGinparadise 14y agoHow do you know Google doesn't create and store an ad profile based on what your email contents usually are? Example: StravosK is likely to have high cholesterol and too much debt.
- StavrosK 14y agoHow do I know Microsoft (or any other provider) doesn't? This is a risk you accept when you give your data to third parties.
- OGinparadise 14y agoHow do I know Microsoft (or any other provider) doesn't? Anything can happen but Google admits that it scans your email to serve relevant ads. Now is that data deleted after that email or do they note that you have x, y and possibly z?