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by magicalist 4309 days ago
This is part of End-To-End[1]. There's no way for their code to see the email contents, even locally in the browser. That's the whole point, in fact.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/
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yutah 4309 days ago
If you can see your emails on your Android device and Google is admin on your device, why do you say that it is impossible for them to read your emails? I don't mean that they could read them in the cloud but if they can read them locally on your Android device and for example they could send a message back to Google saying "I think this guy should get ads for a new router".... but of course they could do much worst (they could send whole messages back for example).
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8475693 4309 days ago
End-to-end is a browser extension that doesn't work on Android.
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yutah 4306 days ago
that is probably because end-to-end is not fully implemented yet...
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blueking 4309 days ago
Android was designed to leak as much information about the user as possible all the time, even to third parties. Spy satellites have less invasive software.
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sp332 4309 days ago
But isn't keyword-based advertising their only revenue source from non-"Apps for Business" accounts?
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