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I stopped using Gmail recently, but the primary reason wasn't that Google algorithm reads my email.

I just finally realized, that by storing all my emails to some company server is potentially dangerous to my privacy. I just don't know, who can potentially access my data, now or in the future.

I switched to another solution, which is to periodically download my emails through pop3s to my local truecrypt-ed drive. It is a slightly more work, but not that much work. I just feel better not to have my private data with Google.



If your email is delivered to Google and you download it from there, they still have a copy.


Yes, I know. I don't use Gmail anymore.




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