Re: Email harvesting
The snag being that even if your own email is not hosted with Google (or another so-called “free” email provider), many of your contacts will have been tight-fisted enough to have done so with their own email address (or use Android or Chrome), so Google, etc, get to harvest your email conversations with those friends from *that* end.
Sadly, email is no longer (never really was) fit for purpose as a guaranteed private end to end encrypted means of communication (setting up GPG, etc, is Too Hard for almost everybody), so what we really need is for a new secure open standard to replace email, but email is just too ubiquitous and easy to use (“good enough”) for sufficient momentum to have been reached, and Google, WhatsApp/Facebook, etc, have a vested interest in the world *not* having a communications protocol that they can’t sniff at least some advertising, etc, metadata from.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
