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15 Apr 2018, 07:36 PM | #1 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Manchester UK
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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 |
16 Apr 2018, 02:20 AM | #2 | |
Essential Contributor
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Location: The Netherlands
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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. |
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23 Apr 2018, 02:16 AM | #3 |
Master of the @
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: USA
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Havent they been doing this for 1 or 2 years now anyway (YAHOO)
Looks like AOL joined them......... (Just more intrusiveness) |
23 Apr 2018, 02:33 AM | #4 | |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: EU
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Don't know about Outlook, but Google stopped scanning emails for adverttising purposed in mid-2017:
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The "e" in e-mail
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23 Apr 2018, 11:35 PM | #6 |
The "e" in e-mail
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24 Apr 2018, 03:28 AM | #7 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: in between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown
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"the cognoscenti" ; am I the only one thinking about the Illuminati returning into the time with internet available?
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) |