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Google To Subscribe To Your Emails To Find Content For Your Search Listings. (www.seroundtable.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Google sent out a notification that it will automatically opt you into using content from your email campaigns to help Google know what to show in Google Search, Shopping, and Maps. It will look for content around "new arrivals, sales or ongoing promotions, social media profiles, and others," Google said.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

I think people are confused, this has nothing to do with gmail as far as I can tell.

Google is going to websites and subscribing itself to their newsletters. This is not related to consumers.

It's still good to move away from gmail and google in general, just pointing out that it's not scanning your gmail inbox or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you, I definitely looked at this sideways for a second until I realized what they meant and you confirmed my thoughts. Yeah I'm happy that my main email is now Proton, and I'm slowly moving accounts over.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I don't want to ruin your day, but Proton is not a safe service anymore, after its owner publicly expressed his love for Trump. So, I highly suggest you to try and move to another European service such as Posteo or Tuta.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I did see that, and it doesn't ruin my day because as of right now everything is encrypted without any backdoors to it, but yes I'm absolutely keeping an eye on it. When I saw that headline though I was pissed. Problem is I also don't know of any other good, safe options currently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I've used Tutanota for a long time with no issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

They have no real data plans for people with like 120+ GB of maildata ... None other than proton I found when I researched this. As a citizen that is with no business.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

they are definitely scanning your inbox… you can “opt out” but, i don’t trust that either