Yahoo and AOL mail users
 

Oath’s new privacy policy allows it to scan your Yahoo and AOL mail for targeted advertising:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/14/1...terms-scan-ads

well whats new...most (free) email providers do this..Google and Outlook are no exception.. Remember if you are NOT paying YOU are the product!!

AFAIK only Yandex and ZOHO do NOT scan emails (unless for anti-spam and virus reasons)!! They also do NOT show ads in their webinterface:-)

I have accounts with both providers and I am very happy with them.

Like i said before...I would NOT use Yahoo or AOL for anything serious....nuff said.

Dutchie.

Havent they been doing this for 1 or 2 years now anyway (YAHOO)

Looks like AOL joined them......... (Just more intrusiveness)

Don't know about Outlook, but Google stopped scanning emails for adverttising purposed in mid-2017:
Gmail blog by Diane Greene, CEO, Google Cloud

Purely focused on email, what's then the difference in relation to privacy using Gmail and let's say Fastmail? In other words: why should I use FM if Google isn't scanning my emails anymore?

Because:
1) Google in general, and Gmail in particular, is the devil incarnate
2) Gmail is for common folks; we, the cognoscenti, use sophisticated services, the more obscure the better
:D:p

"the cognoscenti" ; am I the only one thinking about the Illuminati returning into the time with internet available? :D

The problem with the more obscure services is always whether they'll stick around long enough, they have to compete with massive multinationals... This has lead to the downfall or to becoming less effective of several email services that were great when they first came along (think Safe-Mail.net and Lavabit)

Other than that, I don't use Yahoo myself so I won't judge myself. I am still somewhat doubting though, not so much for email purposes itself but merely for Flickr. That is, if Flickr is more protected against hacks and thus safer than the email part of the Yahoo package. Otherwise I better stick to a paid photo gallery host. 1 terrabyte free photo hosting is tempting, but not if you constantly have to worry about the security of your portfolio.
(I don't consider Instagram to be a photo portfolio host, more a photo diary. A portfolio means photos are ranked per subject in folders rather than displayed in chronological order)