Google To Subscribe To Your Emails To Find Content For Your Search Listings.
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But how do they know which email that might be? Do they even know which of my accounts are for business or personal use? If I send an email from my business email to a bunch of friends and relatives to plan a party, will Google assume those are subscribers and pull my party-planning content from my email and put that info... somewhere... on my business page? I don't want them reading any of my emails, ever.
The email from Google was laughable in that it contained almost no info on how this process is supposed to work. All it means to me is that I don't have control over my own content. This should have been opt-in instead of opt-out.
This has nothing to do with gmail or the emails you send/receive.
The process is googles search bot will subscribe google to marketing newsletters available on websites, it's outlined in the linked post: "Google will either subscribe to your emails automatically or you can add [email protected] to your email lists and that will do it."
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Using email clients is fine on my primary devices, but I often have to use email on other people's computers. I don't really want to go back to carrying a usb of portable apps again. And some public computers have usb drive access disabled, understandably.
but I often have to use email on other people's computers
why
public computers have usb drive access disabled
But why would you ever want to log in to your private e-mail on a public computer.
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I would ask "was it this? https://lemmy.world/comment/15087567
I have this userscript that changes all Lemmy links to my home instance, so that comment still shows up here: https://lemmy.world/comment/15087567
Copying the content for further backup:
Since your goal is “to move to a European registrar” Porkbun is not for you.
https://hosting-checker.net/websites/porkbun.com “Webserver Amazon”
Here are some additional options. https://european-alternatives.eu/category/domain-name-registrar
https://1984.hosting/product/hosting/
I suggest you reach out to Infomaniak support and ask for an alternative method which is less invasive.
https://www.infomaniak.com/en/help
Try to make Infomaniak a better experience for everyone. Infomaniak claims to be “The Ethical Cloud” but they did not start business as a privacy company and have been learning over time. Help to teach them with one more customer story. Let us know what happens.
If no luck with Infomaniak helping, you can try to contact a different registrar before signing up to confirm they will accept your domain type and ask them what the process will be. Hold them accountable to whatever process they describe if you choose them.
wow thanks! that's a long script, how do you know the new numeric ID that corresponds to the same content on the home instance?
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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.
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.
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but I often have to use email on other people's computers
why
public computers have usb drive access disabled
But why would you ever want to log in to your private e-mail on a public computer.
I travel a lot, and spend time in a lot of random places, stay with friends and such like. My job means that I can set my own schedule most of the time, but sometimes I need to respond to something pretty urgently. So, there's been plenty of times when I've been travelling light and suddenly been asked to pull a bunch of data from a spreadsheet and write some quick report on it, so usually I just ask whoever I'm with if I can use their pc for an hour and get it out the way.
It's certainly possible do it all on a phone, but it's much quicker and more pleasant to just use a proper keyboard and screen. And there have been times (like after a ill-advised encounter with a fountain in Rome) when my phone is temporarily out of action, so if I need to deal with travel arrangements on a public computer it might involve accessing my emails.
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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.
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Anyone got a any opinions (or a link to a review) of the different options? Proton and tuta come up, are there others worth considering?
I understand that I'll probably need to pay (otherwise I'm the product) and encryption / security is good, but the thing that keeps with Gmail (apart from inertia) is that it feels quick and easy to use. My only real experience of non Gmail sites over the last two decades have been terrible but mandatory work webmail systems that are slow, clunky and look a decade out of date. Or Hotmail, which sucks for a variety of reasons.
Don't use Proton. The owner of the company is a Trump supporter. Also, Proton is based in Switzerland, I think a EU service is better for European citizens.
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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.
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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.
they are definitely scanning your inbox… you can “opt out” but, i don’t trust that either
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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.
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Anyone got a any opinions (or a link to a review) of the different options? Proton and tuta come up, are there others worth considering?
I understand that I'll probably need to pay (otherwise I'm the product) and encryption / security is good, but the thing that keeps with Gmail (apart from inertia) is that it feels quick and easy to use. My only real experience of non Gmail sites over the last two decades have been terrible but mandatory work webmail systems that are slow, clunky and look a decade out of date. Or Hotmail, which sucks for a variety of reasons.
Mailbox.org is another good option, pretty cheap to use with your own domain which I highly recommend. With your own domain you can move email providers almost instantly later on without needing to update emails on all your accounts.
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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.
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I've used Tutanota for a long time with no issues.
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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 just remembered I still have an old gmail address, I should probably change those things over to my new addresses.
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wow thanks! that's a long script, how do you know the new numeric ID that corresponds to the same content on the home instance?
Not sure how it works, it just changes all lemmy links I see on pages to be lemmy.world ones. You can select the home server on the first run.
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Mailspring desktop client has a pretty neat UI imo.
Thanks, I'll check it out!
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