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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1836282" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>Google's business model is to give folks free services and software that they can't resist, and then they use those to gather information about you which they aggregate and then sell to businesses for advertising purposes. So you can pretty much assume that if a product comes from Google/Alphabet, that they are tracking you and scanning your stuff for information and then selling that information. They aren't giving you a lot of free stuff to be nice.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Apple's Mail, to the best of my knowledge, does not spy on you. It's your Gmail accounts that you have to be concerned about.</p><p></p><p>Instead of using Gmail, there are other free e-mail services that don't spy on you, and which can even be encrypted for the ultimate in security and privacy:</p><p></p><p>Proton Mail</p><p><a href="https://protonmail.com" target="_blank">Secure email: ProtonMail is free encrypted email.</a> </p><p>(encrypted, based in Switzerland)</p><p></p><p>Tutanota</p><p><a href="http://tutanota.com" target="_blank">Secure email: Tutanota makes free encrypted emails easy.</a></p><p>(very secure encrypted e-mail)</p><p></p><p>GMX</p><p><a href="https://www.gmx.com/mail/#.1559516-header-nav1-1" target="_blank">Unique email address @GMX.com: Free & feature-packed</a></p><p>(allows sending large attachments)</p><p></p><p>Yandex</p><p><a href="https://mail.yandex.com/" target="_blank">Yandex.Mail — free, reliable email</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>DuckDuckGo is a nice secure search engine. Unfortunately my experience is that it gives really poor results compared to a Google search. So instead I recommend:</p><p></p><p>StartPage</p><p><a href="https://www.startpage.com" target="_blank">Startpage.com - The world's most private search engine</a></p><p></p><p>What StartPage does is really cool! They submit your search to Google's search engine, but before doing that they strip out any identifying information about who is requesting the search. So you get the benefit of doing a Google search, without Google spying on you! The best of both world's!</p><p></p><p>Similarly, Chrome is an Internet browser that many users love for it's speed, interface, and all of the nice plug-ins available for it. Many Mac users like it way more than Safari. But it comes from Google and is best avoided for the usual reasons. The good news is that several companies have taken the underlying code of the Chrome browser, stripped out all of Google's spyware, and they have even added a bunch of nice features, such as ad-blocking and other security. My current favorite of these is:</p><p></p><p>Brave (free)</p><p><a href="https://brave.com/features/" target="_blank">Features | Brave Browser</a></p><p></p><p>Brave is FAST! It's very secure. It's a joy to use. It doesn't conflict with Safari, so you can have both installed at the same time with no worries.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1836282, member: 190607"] Google's business model is to give folks free services and software that they can't resist, and then they use those to gather information about you which they aggregate and then sell to businesses for advertising purposes. So you can pretty much assume that if a product comes from Google/Alphabet, that they are tracking you and scanning your stuff for information and then selling that information. They aren't giving you a lot of free stuff to be nice. Apple's Mail, to the best of my knowledge, does not spy on you. It's your Gmail accounts that you have to be concerned about. Instead of using Gmail, there are other free e-mail services that don't spy on you, and which can even be encrypted for the ultimate in security and privacy: Proton Mail [URL='https://protonmail.com']Secure email: ProtonMail is free encrypted email.[/URL] (encrypted, based in Switzerland) Tutanota [URL='http://tutanota.com']Secure email: Tutanota makes free encrypted emails easy.[/URL] (very secure encrypted e-mail) GMX [URL='https://www.gmx.com/mail/#.1559516-header-nav1-1']Unique email address @GMX.com: Free & feature-packed[/URL] (allows sending large attachments) Yandex [URL='https://mail.yandex.com/']Yandex.Mail — free, reliable email[/URL] DuckDuckGo is a nice secure search engine. Unfortunately my experience is that it gives really poor results compared to a Google search. So instead I recommend: StartPage [URL='https://www.startpage.com']Startpage.com - The world's most private search engine[/URL] What StartPage does is really cool! They submit your search to Google's search engine, but before doing that they strip out any identifying information about who is requesting the search. So you get the benefit of doing a Google search, without Google spying on you! The best of both world's! Similarly, Chrome is an Internet browser that many users love for it's speed, interface, and all of the nice plug-ins available for it. Many Mac users like it way more than Safari. But it comes from Google and is best avoided for the usual reasons. The good news is that several companies have taken the underlying code of the Chrome browser, stripped out all of Google's spyware, and they have even added a bunch of nice features, such as ad-blocking and other security. My current favorite of these is: Brave (free) [URL="https://brave.com/features/"]Features | Brave Browser[/URL] Brave is FAST! It's very secure. It's a joy to use. It doesn't conflict with Safari, so you can have both installed at the same time with no worries. [/QUOTE]
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