Is there any web email that doesn’t do this?
Give up all pretense of privacy ye who enter here.
I assume that Yahoo and the rest have been doing this and have always done this and will always do this, then proceed from there.
Not long ago, I received an invitation to a party. Google decorated it with several relevant ads and directions to the party location.
only IF you agree to the TOS...
but at least i don’t have gmail. Never heard of an e-mail which asks you for a for a phone number to verify who you are...
I do have MAIL.COM which is awesome, free and better than Yahoo! The drawback is that it is an AP product, so just bear with the Obama ass-kissing headlines like Yahoo.
Anyone know a free or low-cost alternative email provider that is 100% committed to user privacy?
Thanks for posting. Just sent to all the yahoo users on my list. This stinks... jeeesh. FYI: sbcglobal.net email is also Yahoo.
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Gmail has been doing this for ages.
The problem with encryption is so few people use it that it it’s almost certainly a red flag for multiple agencies.
Well, it sounds like Yahoo is going to add content-associated advertisements to your incoming email. If this is all, why not be specific about the warning, that this is how they support a free email service. Few users would complain if they knew why, and if they knew that Yahoo would not reveal anyone’s identity to any advertiser, and those still concerned would, as you suggest, encrypt the content (and presumably get a random advertisement each time).
“It’s eight in the evening, you’re juggling a glass of wine and a sneaky fag in one hand.....”
The state of New York approves of this article...celebutards reaction tweets to follow.
I’m working on some friends to get them to adopt GnuPG. It’s great and not at all difficult to use. My client is Thunderbird so I’m using the Enigmail add on.
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That's what you get when you sign up for free email service. Probably the same thing with your paid-email provider, too - only they're not telling you about it.
Hell, NSA is scanning anything that pushes electrons and photons from one place to another.
That little old lady sitting in the back room reading your emails. Damn get out the tin foils hats.
Is it right? is it right? how silly. It can be done and it can be done cheaply. It will, therefore, be done. That applies to all government and big company snooping. The technology exists and the expense is minute alongside everything else and for a company the profit from the advertising that snooping makes possible is great. The only point of laws against this sort of thing is to prevent the evidence so gathered by the government to be used against you openly in court.
Honorable mention ping.