Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads
by simias on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:51PM
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What about people not using gmail but sending email to a gmail users? Those don't gain anything here.
I actually host my own email but every time I send a message to somebody using one of these webmails it gets indexed and monetized.
But I would argue that it's a technical problem first and foremost, email security is mostly a joke. If I need to send sensitive things through emails I can always use PGP to actually protect it, instead of relying on the goodwill of the email provider not to peek into the message. If people really valued their privacy they'd be doing something similar.
I actually host my own email but every time I send a message to somebody using one of these webmails it gets indexed and monetized.
But I would argue that it's a technical problem first and foremost, email security is mostly a joke. If I need to send sensitive things through emails I can always use PGP to actually protect it, instead of relying on the goodwill of the email provider not to peek into the message. If people really valued their privacy they'd be doing something similar.