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Does your personal email suffix say something about you?

Blankpage said:
Im an internet retard. I've only ever used gmail and outlook. I hate gmail. Am I the only one that doesn't know how to sort in gmail?
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ha interesting point.
I thought about your 'query' and realized I have never sorted in GMail. Second thought : I sorted once, ca.6-9 years ago, when I was setting up my gmail, probably.
 
The gmail superiority complex is pretty funny. The reality is, most gmail users use it only because their friends told them to, not because they did any comparison research or anything.

All these GenY people thinking they're so savvy for having the world's most mainstream email, tracking everything they do :rofl :rofl

And the multiple account thing is hardly a new idea, peeps have been doing that for 20 years, so I don't see why it's being discussed here.
 
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Reli said:
All these GenY people thinking they're so savvy for having the world's most mainstream email, tracking everything they do :rofl :rofl
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go to: www.google.com/settings/ads

After all is said and done, that's all that is really collected about you; Gender, age range, and some basic interest categories. Do you find that particularly scary or unreasonable?
 
wow, intelligence measured by what type of email account one has. :laughing

I will say this, I find it HILARIOUS when I ask someone for an email addy and I get
told, "187bigbootykillacali@yahoo.com" or "sweeteyez69"@gmail.com or some other hood-thug variation. :rofl
 
Reli said:
I was talking more about gmail's email scanning.

And that your search activity as well as Youtube activity is given to the government. No thanks.
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The link I provided shows the data the ad system gathers when it scans your emails. That's all the system remembers.

Re: handover of data, it costs a lot of time and money to cooperate with a government data request, so you can be damn sure no one is looking at what you're doing unless there is a good reason for it.
 
mercurial said:
The link I provided shows the data the ad system gathers when it scans your emails. That's all the system remembers.

Re: handover of data, it costs a lot of time and money to cooperate with a government data request, so you can be damn sure no one is looking at what you're doing unless there is a good reason for it.
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Actually your link only talks about how they use info from your Google profile, the websites you visit, and the searches you perform. It doesn't say anything about email scanning.

And I don't believe for a minute that Google data is only given to the gov't when they ask to target a specific person.
 
Reli said:
Actually your link only talks about how they use info from your Google profile, the websites you visit, and the searches you perform. It doesn't say anything about email scanning.

And I don't believe for a minute that Google data is only given to the gov't when they ask to target a specific person.
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The link doesn't document how each piece of information was gathered. But it does shows you the sum totality of what the company's advertising system remembers about you based on all your interactions with the system. If you read an email about a new car, the ad system may also semantically process the content on the page, distill it down to a few keywords (auto, car, chevy) and give you an ad related to those keywords on the same page.

But once that transaction is performed, it doesn't persistently remember anything about you aside from what you see on that link I provided. You can even opt-out entirely, if you find it offensive that a system has classified you as a 25-35 male who likes automotive. Not really that sneaky after all, right?
 
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Unless they specifically state how they use the email scanning data, they could be doing anything with it. If it's so innocent, why don't they mention it on that page?

But regardless, I'm not too concerned about targeted advertising. What I'm concerned about is what kind of data they're allowing the gov't to access.

Think you wouldn't be targeted if your emails regularly contained terrorism-associated words or names? I'm not so sure. The last couple of months have documented how many times the gov't AND tech companies lave lied to us about what they're doing. First the gov't lied by saying they don't collect any domestic data at all. Then companies like Google and FB lied by saying they don't give any data to the gov't without a subpoena. Then the gov't claimed that it only targeting overseas individuals (a lie). Then they claimed they destroy the data if it's found to be from a US citizen (a lie). And it keeps going on and on.
 
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