• bus_factor@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    That is also a concern and why I always default to a separate account even for those things, but I wouldn’t assume that data doesn’t get sold to Google regardless.

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      4 months ago

      I prefer to use different email aliases for everything to mitigate that

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        4 months ago

        from what i’ve read, ALL email ( possible 0.000something tolerance/error ) goes through google’s mail-transfer-agents.

        If they want a copy of every email that goes across the internet, they’ve got the saturation-of-core-servers to have that.

        There simply isn’t any way to bypass that.


        on an irrelated note, i wish public key encryption had been normalized, & worked right…

        ( Snowden got stung by a misconfiguration, 1 time, & if geeks get stung, then it isn’t ready for normals )

        🙏

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          The important part is whether they can associate two identities together. If you use a shared Google login for everything you’re doing their work for them.