On 07/06/2016 05:05 AM, John Newman wrote: > Do any gmail users (which I've noticed there a lot of on the list, > as well as in real life, heh) feel at all threatened by what Google > is doing with access to your entire mail stream? They've publicly > stated users have no "reasonable expectation of privacy". > > Do you use gmail for your main / private / important emails, in > addition to list correspondence? > > Or do you consider the internet so pwned that it doesnt matter? > (although, why make it easier for them..) > > I'm just curious... I started getting squeamish about it myself a > good few years back, before snowden, just because it seems like an > obviously bad idea to house all my correspondence at the HQ of one > of the biggest corporations in the world, for them to play with, mine, > and cross-index for targeted advertising as they see fit.. > > Setting up your own mail server > (postfix+spamassasin+...clamav+..whatever) isn't really that hard, > although you gotta pay a hosting fee, depending on how you decide > to do it. And I guess there are other alternatives to gmail > that are much better in this area, although I'm still inclined > to use my own thing.. > >
The only thing I use Gmail for is newsletters and an occasional official mail to businesses. If google wants to parse my interests by what I receive in the way of newsletters I really don't give a fuck. I get Stratfor, Reuters, Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy In Focus, The Economist... A dozen others. I hope their AI chokes on it. Speaking of AI... I posted a FB status about a gay man in Illinois who burned a flag, in drag, and then posted it as a profile pic on FB. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210289592215367&set=a.1674617904466.91080.1207997125&type=3&theater He was arrested under an Illinois state flag defacement law and then released b/c that law violates a 1989 Supreme ruling that flag burning is constitutionally protected. A few minutes later I noticed a Sponsored Sidebar ad... Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/BnrCbZu.png If you post on Facebook with the hashtags #LGBT and #Flagburner you end up seeing sidebar ads for incestuous pedobears at answersDOTCom. The pic IS SFW (I guess)... Rr
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