Google's ongoing campaign to narrow the security and privacy gap
between Android and iPhone, as well as the wider Google and Apple
ecosystems has just taken its latest twist. For 2 billion Gmail users,
this could completely change how you use email.

Apple's Hide My Email feature lets users keep their personal email
addresses private, away from the information brokers who sell lists of
email addresses and phone numbers that drive the global scourge of
spam and cold calling.

Now it seems Google has decided to follow suit--a surprise decision
no-one saw coming and which was not touted with the other privacy and
security updates this year. Per Android Authority, "sure, Gmail is an
absolute champ at filtering out spam, but every time you share your
email with someone even a little bit shady, do you feel like you're
playing with fire and risking a whole bunch of unwanted contact?
Google may just have a solution in the works, at least by the looks of
our latest teardown."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/11/15/googles-update-decision-this-completely-changes-gmail-on-your-phone/

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Sn!pe wrote:

JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:

Google's ongoing campaign to narrow the security and privacy
gap between Android and iPhone, as well as the wider Google
and Apple ecosystems has just taken its latest twist. For 2
billion Gmail users, this could completely change how you
use email.

Apple's Hide My Email feature lets users keep their personal
email addresses private, away from the information brokers
who sell lists of email addresses and phone numbers that
drive the global scourge of spam and cold calling.

Now it seems Google has decided to follow suit--a surprise
decision no-one saw coming and which was not touted with the
other privacy and security updates this year. Per Android
Authority, "sure, Gmail is an absolute champ at filtering
out spam, but every time you share your email with someone
even a little bit shady, do you feel like you're playing
with fire and risking a whole bunch of unwanted contact?
Google may just have a solution in the works, at least by
the looks of our latest teardown."

<https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/11/15/googles-update-decision-this-completely-changes-gmail-on-your-phone/>

A very interesting link, thank you. As an Apple user I will
be making much more use of Apple's email cloaking in future,
especially on my more important Gmail addresses.

It appears that AIs will be battling each other in spam/scam
email; I find that rather scary.

I'd move away from free e-mail services altogether if I was you!

As my ol' Nan used to say... pay peanuts, get monkey's! (I'm
sure there's a more apt modern saying but it'll do for now!)

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On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:57:30 GMT, "Blueshirt" <[email protected]>
wrote:

I'd move away from free e-mail services altogether if I was you!

"Gmail is an absolute champ at filtering out spam"

An email program can access Gmail via SMTP. I did this years ago, and
messages can be left on their server, or they can be removed.

I have no complaints with Gmail's service. I use ad blockers on the
browser used, so I don't know if ads exist there these days.

Many years ago, I had a subscription service that had not figure out
how to block spam.

Top 7 Best Free Webmail Providers
...
...
3. ProtonMail

Many free web based email services sell anonymized information about
their users to advertisers and other third parties, but not
ProtonMail. This privacy-oriented email provider offers exceptional
levels of privacy and security, making it ideal for those who would
like to keep their data to themselves.

https://clean.email/web-based-email-best-free-webmail

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On Sun, 17 Nov 2024, Sn!pe wrote:

JAB <[email protected]d> wrote:

Google's ongoing campaign to narrow the security and privacy gap
between Android and iPhone, as well as the wider Google and Apple
ecosystems has just taken its latest twist. For 2 billion Gmail users,
this could completely change how you use email.

Apple's Hide My Email feature lets users keep their personal email
addresses private, away from the information brokers who sell lists of
email addresses and phone numbers that drive the global scourge of
spam and cold calling.

Now it seems Google has decided to follow suit--a surprise decision
no-one saw coming and which was not touted with the other privacy and
security updates this year. Per Android Authority, "sure, Gmail is an
absolute champ at filtering out spam, but every time you share your
email with someone even a little bit shady, do you feel like you're
playing with fire and risking a whole bunch of unwanted contact?
Google may just have a solution in the works, at least by the looks of
our latest teardown."

<https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/11/15/googles-update-decision-this-completely-changes-gmail-on-your-phone/>

A very interesting link, thank you. As an Apple user I will be making
much more use of Apple's email cloaking in future, especially on my
more important Gmail addresses.

It appears that AIs will be battling each other in spam/scam email;
I find that rather scary.

I find it sad. The waste of resources annoy me. =(

When it comes to spam, it is a mystery to me. I get perhaps 3 or 4 per
year, and I never had a problem with it.

I understand that for some people the problem is huge, so I always wonder
what I did not to have that problem?

The only thing I can think of is:

1. I have a "garbage" address at hotmail.com and by now it has around 20k
spam messages in it.

2. I never give out my real email address except to other businesses, and usually businesses have become much more respectful of customers/partners
email addresses the last couple of years.

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I use disroot.org and infomaniak.com for my private email and neither has problem with spam.

On Sun, 17 Nov 2024, JAB wrote:

On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:57:30 GMT, "Blueshirt" <[email protected]>
wrote:

I'd move away from free e-mail services altogether if I was you!

"Gmail is an absolute champ at filtering out spam"

An email program can access Gmail via SMTP. I did this years ago, and messages can be left on their server, or they can be removed.

I have no complaints with Gmail's service. I use ad blockers on the
browser used, so I don't know if ads exist there these days.

Many years ago, I had a subscription service that had not figure out
how to block spam.

Top 7 Best Free Webmail Providers
...
...
3. ProtonMail

Many free web based email services sell anonymized information about
their users to advertisers and other third parties, but not
ProtonMail. This privacy-oriented email provider offers exceptional
levels of privacy and security, making it ideal for those who would
like to keep their data to themselves.

https://clean.email/web-based-email-best-free-webmail

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JAB wrote:

On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:57:30 GMT, "Blueshirt"
<[email protected]> wrote:

I'd move away from free e-mail services altogether if I was
you!

"Gmail is an absolute champ at filtering out spam"

An email program can access Gmail via SMTP. I did this years
ago, and messages can be left on their server, or they can be
removed.

I have no complaints with Gmail's service. I use ad blockers
on the browser used, so I don't know if ads exist there these
days.

Many years ago, I had a subscription service that had not
figure out how to block spam.

I use Mailbox and have an alias for anything that is likely to
bring spam in, although I actually don't see any these days, so
their spam filtering is working okay. (Tesco 'news' go straight
to junk so I leave them there!) Plus, I don't give my 'personal'
e-mail address out willy-nilly, which also helps.

No service is 100% perfect, they all have pros and cons, but
anything that Google 'gives' you has a cost attached to it
somewhere along the line.

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On Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:08:12 +0000, "Blueshirt"
<[email protected]> wrote:

I use Mailbox

Pobox is now part of Fastmail, but many years ago when Pobox was in
its infancy, I tried it...but the spam rolled in.

Spam filtering has improved greatly since then.

Gmail, if they offered a paid service, like they do for businesses, I
would consider coughing up some coins.

What I like and use in Gmail is their search engine. I've used it
over and over for various reasons.

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