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Gmail (and Google) is "free" because it harvests your private information, scans your emails, contacts, and collates this against your use of YouTube, Chrome, your browsing habits, Google Drive contents, websites you visit and adverts you click... everything... The amount of information collected is massive, creepy and you'll never undo it. If a person followed you around collecting this information you'd think it was the creepiest thing.
Worse still, this information is stored on Google servers, which can be hacked or supboenad. You also have no idea who will own that information in 10 or 20 years time, how it can be used against you or other people it contains information about, or under which legal jurisdiction.
Others who may have never agreed to Gmail/Google's Terms & Conditions (including perhaps for privacy reasons), have the content of their emails scanned if they send stuff to a Gmail address. All of that is also true for Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com/Hotmail and Yahoo! (And some others.)
Want to improve your privacy online? I recommend this as a start.
That's a good start. Then follow the info on www.privacytools.io for further advice.
Awesome list. Thanks for sharing! Switched from Google search to Qwant recently, works just as nicely.
For secure emails you could also add Tutanota. The entire mailbox is encrypted, plus it's open source.
Reply written almost 4 years ago
Yes, Tutanota is end-to-end encrypted and open source. Better still, they are currently testing the beta version of their new interface, which looks awesome, judging from the screenshots. They also promised a calendar in 2017; I hope they can deliver that and attract even more people away from Gmail.
Reply written almost 4 years ago
Better Privacy is NOT open source --- and is now discontinued.
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/)
[Edited by Natterjack565, November 08]
Reply written over 3 years ago
Fastmail seems suspicious, because I don't trust women with coloured hair in a top position in a company. In my experience, they are most likely to be far-left leaning people who contribute to the censorship, and privacy violation when someone doesn't respect their ideologies. If these particular people are not like that, then sorry about that, but I am not sure I can still trust. In animal kingdom this is called , Aposematism, which means the use of a signal and especially a visual signal of conspicuous markings or bright colours by an animal to warn other animals that it is toxic or distasteful.
Reply written 4 months ago
@tihedomecu
Is that you, Donald?
Reply written 4 months ago
Google has your Mail, Calendar, interests,... all your life.
good, now everything is simpler
Reply written over 5 years ago
Gmail, Yahoo and most other services are mega spies, they collect all your data and scan it for posting targeted ads. If this doesn't concern you, they also let the authorities scan all emails as the recent Yahoo scandal has shown. The only alternative is encrypted mail because these services simply can't spy on your data.
Take a look at these encrypted email services:
There really is no reason anymore to use free spyware as the alternative options are just as easy.
Since 2007, I've had an account. I keep it because it's convenient to have. However, it's mostly used for spam and the like. I don't use it for anything personal. If it had encryption, and Google cared more about privacy, I would reconsider.
I like Gmail as an email service, but I need an email client that can send and receive email from my Outlook account which does not support POP, IMAP, and SMTP.