Google sent out a notification that it will automatically opt you into using content from your email campaigns to help Google know what to show in Google Search, Shopping, and Maps. It will look for content around “new arrivals, sales or ongoing promotions, social media profiles, and others,” Google said.
I think people are confused, this has nothing to do with gmail as far as I can tell.
Google is going to websites and subscribing itself to their newsletters. This is not related to consumers.
It’s still good to move away from gmail and google in general, just pointing out that it’s not scanning your gmail inbox or something like that.
they are definitely scanning your inbox… you can “opt out” but, i don’t trust that either
Thank you, I definitely looked at this sideways for a second until I realized what they meant and you confirmed my thoughts. Yeah I’m happy that my main email is now Proton, and I’m slowly moving accounts over.
I don’t want to ruin your day, but Proton is not a safe service anymore, after its owner publicly expressed his love for Trump. So, I highly suggest you to try and move to another European service such as Posteo or Tuta.
I did see that, and it doesn’t ruin my day because as of right now everything is encrypted without any backdoors to it, but yes I’m absolutely keeping an eye on it. When I saw that headline though I was pissed. Problem is I also don’t know of any other good, safe options currently.
I’ve used Tutanota for a long time with no issues.