Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Lily's avatar

The problem with email is its inherent insecurity; you can only protect against corporate tracking, not government surveillance. Whatever you do, if you want to ensure utmost privacy for what you have to communicate, it's best to avoid using email altogether—or ideally, abstain from digital mediums entirely.

Expand full comment
Visceral Adventure's avatar

For those of us that have our entire lives enmeshed with google, I can’t even begin to think to go through my 300+ subs to all kinds of services where my gmail account exists. Also, if I get a new email, would I then forward all gmails into it until the phase out process is over? I have about ten email accounts. This process seems daunting. I have never taken advantage of filtering or any of the benefits google even offers. I don’t think I’ll miss much by going with a different client. Just time consuming. And seeing that my friends are now receiving a warning label that my account is suspicious with my emails, I might have to start the process...

Expand full comment
3 more comments...

No posts