[dwedge]

Expanding the acronym really works well here. Gmail is no good if you have a legitimate need for pretty good privacy.

I would argue everyone does, most people just don't really think about what they are giving away. And how many emails a day are you receiving that a daily or hourly incremental offside backup wouldn't give you almost all of the benefits of "multi region replication"?

[cbeach]

I’m sure I could rig up my own email server with replication and all sorts. I recall doing this many years ago, running SpamAssasin etc.

Turns out the quality of things like self hosted spam filtering is no match for the world’s most notorious data ingestion and analysis company

[dwedge]

Sounds like shifting the goal posts.

I have two or three emails a month get through my spam filtering. I don't consider fixing that to be worth the price of letting the world's most notorious advertising company have access to my emails