Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard to delete

Re:Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard... by giggles_giggles on Friday May 17, 2019 @03:23PM (#19942641)

No, because 1) FastMail doesn't make money through advertising so they have no incentive to read your mail and 2) if you pay for an account with your own domain, you are not locked in, so if they start doing something you don't like, you can migrate away without telling all of your contacts to use some new address.

These benefits are broadly true of most paid-for private email hosting providers.

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Re:Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard... by Johnny555 on Friday May 17, 2019 @08:50PM (#19944906)

they have no incentive to read your mail

I'm sure they could sell that data (maybe even to Google) even if they don't sell ads themselves.

(I'm not saying they do read emails, but "more money" is a big incentive)

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Re:Gmail tracks the history of things you buy, and it’s hard... by Lio on Saturday May 18, 2019 @04:45AM (#19946383)

One thing though, customers like me use FastMail specifically because they aren't in the Privacy Farming business like Google.

If they ever do start privacy farming then I'll be incentivised to move my domain to a separate supplier.

If I didn't care about that I'd just be using Google's "free" service already. So FastMail are incentivised to protect their business and to not compete head on with Google.

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