Posted on 06/24/2011 11:13:17 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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.
Good question. At least Yahoo’s admitting it.
Not long ago, I received an invitation to a party. Google decorated it with several relevant ads and directions to the party location.
Gmail does also. I assume Hotmail does also. You want ad-free pay for it.
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.
I use yahoo, gmail, myway, lycos and hotmail as junk mail addresses when signing up for any web subscriptions, surveys, whatever. They collect all the crap and I use my real email (pop) for correspondence with friends.
Anyone know a free or low-cost alternative email provider that is 100% committed to user privacy?
I would hope hushmail doesn’t, but who knows..
I would try www.hushmail.com
They *seem* to be very privacy minded. But, can you really say they are? Maybe they’re a honeypot. It’s all a gamble.
Thanks for posting. Just sent to all the yahoo users on my list. This stinks... jeeesh. FYI: sbcglobal.net email is also Yahoo.
Apple will be offering free email without ads when they start the iCloud service in September.
It isn’t the ads .. it’s the intrusion of your privacy, reading emails.
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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).
Is there a simple, free way to do that or is it a paid deal?
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