|
FastMail Forum All posts relating to FastMail.FM should go here: suggestions, comments, requests for help, complaints, technical issues etc. |
|
Thread Tools |
6 May 2017, 05:54 AM | #316 |
Master of the @
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: USA
Posts: 1,722
|
Repeating, but why not just move on if you don't like FM? Personally, I would argue that taking them to court would be more painful than lucrative (you have to prove actual harm and loss of money to gain anything, if you win). I suspect a court case is unlikely to go anywhere. Maybe you just want a moral victory, but it will cost you.
|
11 May 2017, 01:23 AM | #317 | |
Member
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Emergency temporary account of ROBERT.BAK
Posts: 36
|
Quote:
|
|
11 May 2017, 01:40 AM | #318 |
Member
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Emergency temporary account of ROBERT.BAK
Posts: 36
|
Do you have any idea what it takes to run a professional, reliable email service? Anyone who tries to run such a service off ordinary domestic-grade or office-grade storage, such as USB sticks(!), is setting themselves up for catastrophic failure; to get reliability needs enterprise-grade storage (RAID drives; RAID-capable hard drives, as anyone knows who has set up an NAS drive for their own use, are made to higher quality standards than ordinary PC drives and are consequentially more expensive) and at least double redundancy (every account stored on two, if not more, different RAID drives). I have just built myself a RAID drive consisting of a ReadyNAS 214 (about £270) and 4*10Tb hard drives (£414 each). Total cost nearly £2000, for a capacity (with built-in RAID5 redundancy) of 27Tb -- which I doubt would hold more than a small fraction of Fastmail's current customer base.
|
11 May 2017, 04:42 AM | #319 | |
Member
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 53
|
Yes...true but..
Quote:
It's funny, I don't care if Google uses my "information" to target me with supposed relevant ads. If that's how they want to make money off me I have nothing to hide, as I am a law abiding citizen and well respected in my community. Anyway, I don't see their ads as every one is blocked promptly with the best ad blockers accordingly. |
|
11 May 2017, 05:42 AM | #320 | |
Master of the @
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: USA
Posts: 1,722
|
Quote:
|
|
11 May 2017, 06:37 AM | #321 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: a virtually impossible but finitely improbable position
Posts: 2,320
|
I'm a law abiding citizen, but if my email is at Google, they know my mortgage info, my travel schedule, my back account balances, my investment statements, my children's addresses, where I go, when I go there, what I buy, all my receipts, etc. Google is a master at monetizing my personal information.
My feeling is that no one has a right to that information but me. Also, no government is forever. We've seen other countries adopt policies that certain behaviours once legal, are now considered repressive, hate speech, politically offensive, etc. Etc. Etc. Times change, and laws change. Who knows, what I do today could be illegal tomorrow. Venezuela, the most affluent country in South America, became communist and suddenly people who had supported the opposing party were now dissidents. I'd like to keep my information private, thank you very much. Wanna have some fun and get freaked out at the same time? Research the company acxiom, the biggest name in personal data aggregation, you've never heard of. They aggregate real world and digital world data, into an accurate picture of who you are. I'm not wearing Tin foil hats, I just want my privacy. |
11 May 2017, 06:44 AM | #322 |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Dover, NH, USA
Posts: 315
|
|
11 May 2017, 06:57 AM | #323 |
Master of the @
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: USA
Posts: 1,722
|
Of course, all this tracking is good for a laugh or two it is so inept. A friend of mine was looking for a new toilet for his home and saw nothing but ads for toilets for days, even after he had purchased one. I have been tempted to turn back on much of the Google tracking that I have turned off because instead of seeing somewhat targeted ads instead I seem to get the dregs of the advertising world--the stuff they have to get rid of--ads for various creams that will do something for various body parts, pictures of lovely young twins that want to meet me, pharmaceutical products from other countries that are illegal where I live, etc.
|
11 May 2017, 07:14 AM | #324 | |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: a virtually impossible but finitely improbable position
Posts: 2,320
|
Quote:
Again, no tin foil hats. I just want my privacy. That's why I'm sticking with fastmail. |
|
11 May 2017, 07:16 AM | #325 | |
Member
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Emergency temporary account of ROBERT.BAK
Posts: 36
|
Quote:
It baffles me why Amazon in particular believes that I want to buy again something I've just purchased, even if it's a one-off item such as a CD (OK, I could perhaps lose it or have it stolen, but so soon after purchase?), or once-in-a-blue-moon items such as hard drives (there are only so many any one person can use at once). |
|
11 May 2017, 07:21 AM | #326 |
Member
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Emergency temporary account of ROBERT.BAK
Posts: 36
|
Regarding Farcebook, I have an account but only for when I have absolutely no other means of contact. It has the bare minimum of information (just my name, not even a profile pic; I had one, a character from a web cartoon, but those twits took it down), and the account doesn't make or accept "friend" requests (any that arrive at my FM account get silently rejected, that address accepts notifications only).
|
11 May 2017, 07:23 AM | #327 | |
Master of the @
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: USA
Posts: 1,722
|
Quote:
|
|
11 May 2017, 07:33 AM | #328 |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Dover, NH, USA
Posts: 315
|
lol yeah I see lots of ads on Facebook,
for instance I see Amazon.com ads for stuff I recently searched... plus I was searching a possibly getting my first smartphone.... so I looked at... AT&T and CredoMobile... both had pros and cons but for now I will stick with my free SafeLink phone for now... and now I see AT&T ads for the new Samsung Galaxy S7 lol |
11 May 2017, 07:49 AM | #329 | |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: a virtually impossible but finitely improbable position
Posts: 2,320
|
Quote:
|
|
11 May 2017, 08:02 AM | #330 |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Dover, NH, USA
Posts: 315
|
|