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I've thought about turning my whole house into a faraday cage way too many times to be considered sane still.
Ermmm we used the copper nanotube paint once on an office and, well, it sucked. Bad. Cell phones only worked in this small corner of the office, and wifi was chaotic. Something about signals can't get in, but they also can't get out, so they collide ...
Hope this increases the chance of E2E encryption
So much for the argument "how else is Google going to make money if it isn't reading your emails?!" Companies can make money without tracking you 24/7 and reading all of your private content. They just choose not to, because it's easier, and then spread the propaganda that those things are "needed" to stay in business.
How do you know? That's the problem with closed source software, and software that runs in someone else's computer. You have no idea what it does. You aren't in control. Someone else is deciding what code runs on your computer. That's a problem.
The late 1970's was probably the last time anybody truly understood 100% of what was going on in any system.
The bottom line is that you have to trust some people. I totally understand those that don't trust Google. I happen to trust them today.
That sucks for me as an advertiser. Gmail ads were great for B2B marketing.
Man I am super sorry my basic privacy are getting in the way of your marketing effort. Edit: removed "rights"
I never understood the argument that some automatic scanning for keywords is like "reading" your mail. By that same logic isn't Gmail's spam filter still "reading" your mail? It is classifying your mail based on content after all...
The spam filter is for my benefit, but scanning for ad keywords is designed to benefit someone else, not me.
I should probably get fitted for a tinfoil hat because my immediate reaction was, "Oh shit! They must've developed something now that tracks you better and is less obvious."
I think I've become jaded because I just don't believe it. It's like Google Home. A wonderful device but when I heard it may start listening to everything I say... I just figured yeah, that should be expected. So now I just expect Google to read, listen, and analyze everything I do with their products.
I feel like any device that has a microphone is suspect if you want total privacy, but listening to what you say seems like an integral part of the device. You can only hope (and independently verify) that they don't store everything you say.
That sucks for me as an advertiser. Gmail ads were great for B2B marketing.
Man I am super sorry my basic privacy are getting in the way of your marketing effort. Edit: removed "rights"
You're confusing a want with a right.