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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by im_down_w_otp on Friday December 24, 2021 @11:43AM (#29675044)
FWIW, someone is still reading your email. The owner of the infrastructure of your message recipients. If you've gone through the trouble of hosting your own email to avoid Google harvesting your messages, but you're exchanging emails with someone whose email is hosted by Google, then your emails are still being harvested and/or are harvestable.
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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by vaylian on Friday December 24, 2021 @12:03PM (#29675233)
Good point. But it is still one person/company less that reads your e-mail, if you and your correspondent used different e-mail providers previously.

There are also correspondences where you are only the receiver. For example, when you order things online. Gmail doesn't need to know what you are shopping for.

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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by im_down_w_otp on Friday December 24, 2021 @12:19PM (#29675387)
Unfortunately, they can still close the loop on purchase history and ad impressions through indirect, lazy association.

It's a very, very impressive edifice that's been created for identifying and tracking pretty much everybody irrespective of their direct, immediate interaction with the entity doing the tracking. I honestly think it's kind of funny that such a potentially insidious system was manifest for something as principally vapid as ad targeting.

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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by hackerfromthefu on Friday December 24, 2021 @05:17PM (#29678299)
Yes, quite the trojan horse.
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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by jraph on Friday December 24, 2021 @07:12PM (#29679046)
True. But at least, you went out of your way to not inflict this to your recipients, should they wish to avoid this harvest. You made your part of trying to avoid this. You did your part to weaken this argument. Someone has to break the vicious circle.
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