Submitted 3 weeks ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-merchant-center-subscribe-emails-content-39178.html
Google sent out a notification that it will automatically opt you into using content from your email campaigns to help Google know what to show in Google Search, Shopping, and Maps. It will look for content around “new arrivals, sales or ongoing promotions, social media profiles, and others,” Google said.
Me, in 2005: Why would anyone use a service that scans your personal email for things to sell you?
Me 20 years later: . . so. . . tired
I think people are confused, this has nothing to do with gmail as far as I can tell.
Google is going to websites and subscribing itself to their newsletters.
Thank you, I definitely looked at this sideways for a second until I realized what they meant and you confirmed my thoughts. Yeah I’m happy that my main email is now Proton, and I’m slowly moving accounts over.
I don’t want to ruin your day, but Proton is not a safe service anymore, after its owner publicly expressed his love for Trump. So, I highly suggest you to try and move to another European service such as Posteo or Tuta.
they are definitely scanning your inbox… you can “opt out” but, i don’t trust that either
Bold of them to assume I use Google when googling things.
and they’ll pay you for helping them out with their product right???
I’m so glad I made the choice to move away from Gmail and Google search a few years ago.
I finally just blew up my gmail the other week and not a moment to soon as it seems. Much happier with my new swiss provider.
Anyone got a any opinions (or a link to a review) of the different options? Proton and tuta come up, are there others worth considering?
I understand that I’ll probably need to pay (otherwise I’m the product) and encryption / security is good, but the thing that keeps with Gmail (apart from inertia) is that it feels quick and easy to use. My only real experience of non Gmail sites over the last two decades have been terrible but mandatory work webmail systems that are slow, clunky and look a decade out of date. Or Hotmail, which sucks for a variety of reasons.
Don’t use Proton. The owner of the company is a Trump supporter. Also, Proton is based in Switzerland, I think a EU service is better for European citizens.
I now personally use Posteo since they have a strong privacy policy, but a more complete and user-friendly option might be Infomaniak. They offer free email, or a suite including 1TB cloud storage for €20 per year. They’re hosting in Switzerland.
Startmail (from the Startpage folks) has been fine for me. You pay for it, you can put your domain on it, you can do alias addresses, works with any IMAP client since it’s just IMAP ran by a (so far) competent company. Their web ui is fine, but ive only used it for initial setup. Besides Thunderbird on mobile I use Snappymail within Nextcloud and this works just fine as well. All I can say is it does what it says on the tin.
My only real experience of non Gmail sites over the last two decades have been terrible but mandatory work webmail systems that are slow, clunky and look a decade out of date.
Uh same, Outlook Web’s search function sucks so much compared to Gmail’s 😫
Mailspring desktop client has a pretty neat UI imo.
Mailbox.org is another good option, pretty cheap to use with your own domain which I highly recommend. With your own domain you can move email providers almost instantly later on without needing to update emails on all your accounts.
Don’t use webmail then? There are enough E-Mail tools on every OS.
Using email clients is fine on my primary devices, but I often have to use email on other people’s computers. I don’t really want to go back to carrying a usb of portable apps again. And some public computers have usb drive access disabled, understandably.
I just remembered I still have an old gmail address, I should probably change those things over to my new addresses.
jqubed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just to clarify, “you” in this case refers to companies and marketers, not consumers. Looks like this news website is for marketers/SEO industry people.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So this is another headline designed to get a kneejerk reaction outta people.
Basically if I’m a store that sends out a weekly email to subscribers, Google will “read” that email for SEO purposes.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
it’s the automatically opting in people have a problem with
Pandemanium@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
But how do they know which email that might be? Do they even know which of my accounts are for business or personal use? If I send an email from my business email to a bunch of friends and relatives to plan a party, will Google assume those are subscribers and pull my party-planning content from my email and put that info… somewhere… on my business page? I don’t want them reading any of my emails, ever.
The email from Google was laughable in that it contained almost no info on how this process is supposed to work. All it means to me is that I don’t have control over my own content. This should have been opt-in instead of opt-out.
drspod@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Yeah, because they’ve been doing this to us plebs for years now.