Subj : Re: Your Gmail search res
To   : Rob Mccart
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Sun Mar 23 2025 11:32:30

 RM> Yes.. I have a gMail address but almost no one has it, and I set it
 RM> up that anything that comes to me through it is forwarded to another
 RM> eMail account I have so very little from me ends up there. I'd get
 RM> nothing if I hadn't set up a few commercial places with my gMail
 RM> address before I knew any better. But not much information that
 RM> goes through there would be of any use.. Reminders that a bill is
 RM> coming due or a thankyou that it's been paid, so they know I pay
 RM> some common bills but no details are given out in those..

That's a good point. I'm the same way. I don't use email for anything too
important either, but the issue here is the chip on my shoulder about big tech and companies with big names.

It doesn't seem like a big deal if Google saw (for example) a receipt for my electric bill, but the problem is that they are collectors of information in general, and I'm certain that they use it to do things that will irk me one way or another. Maybe they'll use it to make sales, or they're selling it to
China, or using it to make racial statistics, or to plan an attack on a certain demographic. They definitely aren't using the information they gather to do God's work.

 RM> I also don't use Google to search for things online.

Despite everything I just said, I do use Google to search for most things, but there's no other search engine that I trust any further than I trust Google.

 RM> That said, virtually all eMail providers check eMails for known
 RM> content often used by Spammers. I get the odd eMail dumped in a
 RM> Spam folder, one or two a month, with a notice that it's there in
 RM> case I know what it is and want to see it.. And I don't remember
 RM> the last time something that landed there was actually Spam, it
 RM> just used language/terms that looked suspect..

Spam is an issue, but I suspect that Google and the other sleazeballs use the spam issue as justification for things like: the power to tell small, private email servers "Your email server is not permitted to communicate with ours because we don't trust you." (This keeps them elevated and it keeps the little guys down.)

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