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Posted on 11/02/2025 2:59:49 PM PST by ferg flute
Unsolicited AI summaries showing up in personal Yahoo email.
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I find it disconcerting that my personal emails are being routinely harvested by yet another, more advanced fishing net.
This unwelcomed and uninvited intrusion on personal privacy is only the latest example of the ongoing loss in online privacy, which is already sorely challenged. While privacy on the internet is a rapidly diminishing commodity, this AI intrusion is somewhat alarming. Should we now simply assume that all our emails are simply food for the data-hungry tech firms who are continually looking for more personal information they can sell to the highest bidder? 1984 was written as fiction, are we seeing its realization in real time?
Hope someone comes up with a block for all this AI crap
Are you using the free service?
Yes, I’m using the free Yahoo account, had it for years
I get them on Gmail as well.............
If you had bothered to check, you would know how to turn it off!
My tech knowledge is severely limited. I want/need to continue this free account for several business and personal reasons, but find this new AI intrusion alarming. I also want to see how pervasive this is. If you know of a way to remove this feature, it would be most appreciated. Thank you.
I almost became angry with my ex wife for an email she sent, until I realized the portion that bothered me was the AI summary.
In that case you already know that:
When the product is "FREE", it means YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.It's not rocket surgery.Don't want privacy intrusion in your email? Find a good paid service and then you can stop griping about the one you got for free, and start kvetching about the one you're paying for. :-)
“If you know of a way to remove this feature, it would be most appreciated. Thank you.”
Google how to turn off yahoo mail AI summary.
Lighten up Frances. I know I’m the product, I’m just not crazy about the blatantcy of the product theft.
Agreed!
Thanks for the info. Just did it and I’m hoping it works well.
No worries, I didn't mean it toward you harshly; the bold was more for other commenters who haven't figured it out yet. As the owner of the FR Windows Ping List for the past decade and a half, I'm constantly amazed by how many internet users haven't tumbled to the obvious. Sorry if my comment peed in your Cheerios, that wasn't my intent.
> ... my internal Luddite is not liking it.
Neither is mine, which is why I built and maintain my own personal email service in AWS with a small Linux VM. Costs about the same as a good paid email service (and less than some), and I guarantee that nobody reads my mail but me.
No problems. I’m trying diligently to maintain a low-as-possible internet profile. While my efforts to remain as computer illiterate as possible have been somewhat successful, the increasing web of intrusion and privacy theft frequently makes an unwelcome knock on my door. Eventually, I’ll have to fully enter the 21st century, but I’ll be walking through that door kicking and screaming.
Proton Mail is a decent secure and free option because they uses zero-access end-to-end encryption. Proton can’t read them even if they wanted to, which they don’t. They will comply with Swiss court orders when required to disclose the IP address but the encrypted content remains secure.
The free service is intended as the hook to get people to subscribe to one of their paid services.
We use chat at work. If I don’t read them right away, AI gives me a summary. I hate that
Interesting, I’ll give them a look and see if it works with my situation.
I second Proton Mail.
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