Re:ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar
by thebean11 on Monday December 30, 2019 @09:41PM
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What exact behavior of Google are we talking about here? I'm pretty sure they do mine emails for their own ad targeting. On the other hand, I'm equally sure they handle the information securely and don't pass it on to anyone else.
Re:ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar
by wstrange on Monday December 30, 2019 @09:50PM
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> I'm pretty sure they do mine emails for their own ad targeting.
They do not. See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en
"We will not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads."
Re:ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar
by tinus_hn on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @05:47AM
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Yet, they state
https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en
> Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when it is stored.
Re:ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar
by tuananh on Monday December 30, 2019 @10:51PM
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> "We will not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads."
that reads to me like ""We may do it for other purposes."
Re:ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar
by jdminhbg on Monday December 30, 2019 @11:08PM
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They obviously do, as does every mail provider that filters spam, at a bare minimum.
Re:ProtonMail takes aim at Google with an encrypted calendar
by twoflower9 on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @05:29PM
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Whenever I book a flight google offers to set alarms and gives me don't forget your flight tomorrow notifications. They are obviously reading the email to achieve this.
They may make money off ads but I don't think they have any real incentive to lie about what they're doing. Because most of their users don't actually care. I would be curious if anyone knows of any scenario where Google has outright lied about what they do and don't do with information, because I've never heard of it.
For me, I moved off gmail for other reasons: my email is too important to randomly lose access to because e.g. their youtube AI thinks I'm spamming a channel on Youtube. I look at all my data in Google as if I might lose access to it forever some day, because someday I might, with zero recourse.