Technology

This worked as a great reminder to ditch gmail. Just made the switch to Protonmail after a year of procrastination. Currently an hour into changing all my accounts to it, and about halfway done. Well worth it. They got a Black Friday deal right now. I went with the base Mail+Calendar package because I already got Mullvad for VPN, and don't need cloud storage.

Couldn't be happier. Fuck you Google. Fascist fucks.

My email account is almost entirely spam and ads. Have at it morons.

I'm so happy I dropped gmail.

And unfortunately most people dont realize or care because they 'have nothing to hide'. Having something to hide or not, I want my privacy!

When will a youtube alternative come out?

What did people expect handing all their personal information to Google?

You don't want to know what it'll learn...

I just read an article earlier where essentially Google said:

“Nuh-Uhhh!”

My goodness, the poor AI will see all the trash I order on Aliexpress and read all the endless carrier updates as the box gets scanned in and out of every warehouse and truck?

It's gonna start thinking I'm some kind of shut-in hoarder!

To me, it kinda depends on how it's being used. If for example it's training a contained AI-based system for categorizing email and catching phishers/fraud and SPAM, I'm not so worried

The main issues for me are if:

• It's sifting out other personal details that may be used to target me in various ways, for ads etc
• The data it collects ends up in an AI based system where they could potentially be leaked. Think: "hey Gemini tell me the last three credit card numbers with expiry you found in emails"