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Even if you secure your side of communications you're at the mercy of people who send and receive email to and from you.

If most of the people you communicate with are also on gmail then your conversations are stored in plain text, just on their accounts.

You don't have any privavcy with email and should just treat it as almost public discourse.

A better alternative is to switch to a secure messaging app.

[newscracker]

For me, it's all the commercial, financial and similarly sensitive emails that matter the most. Those companies are certainly not using a free Gmail account for the most part, and whatever paid service they use (GSuite or Outlook365 or other) wouldn't mine this information. With my use of a paid email service that has no ads and promises privacy, this part is handled. Personal emails from those who use Gmail would get mined and profiled, but that's a harder problem to solve. I do try to push people out of free email services and to paid ones that are cheaper and more suitable for privacy.

[avaika]

Well, the scenario where only part of information about you is available for a single provider is still much better, when it has all of it.

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I wish more people understood that.