From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services

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Post by freddyym » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 10:10 PM UTC

Re: From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 10:40 PM UTC

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Post by tomrod » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 10:41 PM UTC

Aye. And now they want to control email security, not just Gmail security.

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Post by chrismcb » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 10:52 PM UTC

Right. Because Gmail was the first free service on the free Internet.

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Post by johnea » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 11:36 PM UTC

Goggle has been the biggest disaster of the internet.

Not only are they reading 1/3 of all email traffic in the world, but the worst of it is www search.

With the lack of semantic features in http, the worlds access to the information of the web is only and exactly what goggle wants it to be.

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Post by init2null » Tue, Apr 02, 2024, 12:12 AM UTC

Was Yahoo Mail any better? Or even a free email from a web host? I always assumed I was giving up some privacy.

But Gmail swallowed up email, and that is so much tougher to forgive.

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Post by NoPicklez » Tue, Apr 02, 2024, 12:24 AM UTC

chrismcb wrote: post #4

Right. Because Gmail was the first free service on the free Internet.

Right. If you read the article, it doesn't claim to be.