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Originally Posted by hobbes
If you want someone else to store and serve your private data, you by necessity give up control. Why can't you see this?
If you want control over your private data, keep putting in the effort to run your own mail servers.
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This line of argument isn't really helpful to the discussion because it gets us nowhere. It's equivalent to "if you want a job done properly, do it yourself" or "if you don't want to be let down, never trust anyone". That attitude might be true in the strictest, most cynical sense, but it doesn't help us to draw boundaries of acceptable behaviour in a society *built* on trust relationships, a society where I don't have to become a specialist in car repair, electrical engineering, music, construction, waste disposal, computer programming, food farming, film production, and every other field the fruits of which I would like to enjoy once in a while.
I understand your reasoning, and it has validity up to a point, but it's not helpful in a commercial setting. If I'm expressing concerns about food hygiene in a restaurant, it's very easy to say "if you don't want your food poisoned, then don't eat out", but it's not helpful because the only general way to apply this philosophy is for us all to stop exchanging goods and services and go home.
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Originally Posted by downset
I can't possibly make fastmail's business case for them, but i would suspect a fair amount of their users pay for their email at fastmail because they don't like google's policies concerning privacy and use of our private data, i would think that creating a strong and secure TOS like mariner suggested would bring them extra
customers
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I think this is true for me - I like using a mail client rather than Webmail where possible, but were Google's privacy not so bad, I would probably have made the effort to adapt by now.