Yeah, the largest email company is probably Google (maybe Microsoft). Google definitely looks at every email they receive for users!
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DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks agoBut do you remember how they monetized email
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
Mio@feddit.nu 5 weeks ago
I don’t use Gmail. There are plenty of email providers out there that is completely free without ads and privacy focused. Mailfence, Tutanota, ProtonMail etc. Personally I use my ISP provider that is actually pro privacy - Bahnhof . That due it is a niche and if you don’t save logs you don’t have the log storage cost.
If feddit.nu (only 50 users) did not exist I would have chosen to self-host it on the free Oracle VPS teir.
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
The claim was “Email server owners don’t look at the content”. This is untrue since possibly the largest owner of email servers looks at the content to monetize the service. That’s all.
Mio@feddit.nu 5 weeks ago
They are not suppose to do that. It is disrespect to the user privacy. Hence good opportunity to change owner. Just a design flaw of the protocol that makes it possible to abuse that. Gmail is just one single provider, but yes, many more does it and Gmail is big.
commander@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
They…? If you choose to pay for something you can be getting for free, it’s kind of your fault for being a useful idiot.