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by mda 2827 days ago
How are they mining your emails to build a profile of you?

Besides when you use such a service all your personal emails are stored in servers. One rubber stamp away from total ownage.

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> all your personal emails are stored in [someone else's] servers.

Well, yeah. That's true for everything except for hardware you actually own.

They're saying it's better than storing it on Google's servers, not that it's bulletproof.

There really isn't a way to have impenetrable email. It's all about what type and level of risks you're willing to take.

E.g. are you concerned more about rubber stamps or software exploits? Are you more concerned about usage pattern profiles or someone actually reading the content of your messages?

Different people have different priorities and there is no one single best option.