How or what exactly does google track through gmail?
Do they track the content of emails sent and received?
Do they read my private emails?
To my dismay my ISP has started using the gmail email format a few months back. I miss the plain jane emails. There seems to be no escaping google. It’s like a virus.
See my post #25. I believe like Facebook, they will track where you go on internet - for example garden sites, they will read your email for key words like vacation, reservation, etc. and provide that information to advertisers.
Interesting how this ties in with “behavioral internet pricing/marketing...
If you look at the gmail URL, it's "mail.google.com". So the cookies that gmail sets are visible to google.com. It also knows the IP address you logged in from. This allows it to connect what you search for on google with your gmail user ID.
No human person (in theory) reads your emails, but software parses your emails for words and phrases that can be used to tailor ads to you.
All your gmail emails are parsed by computer. Send a friend an email with say the word China in it. You’ll probably see a targeted ad about trips to China in the sidebar very soon after. It’s the same for Yahoo and I expect hotmail/windows live also.
If you want privacy, the best bet is get your own domain or there is always hushmail.com.