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So glad I switched email and calender services years ago.
Remember, Google is not alone:
Can’t wait to see what their dogshit AI will output after being trained on all the LinkedIn lunatics
I opened GMail and it specifically asked me to give consent in a descriptive/onboarding popover. Declining was choosing one of the two options. I’m in EU, it may be different elsewhere (title and article about US?).
The age of accelerated enshitification is upon us (has been for a minute)
It’s not really enshittification when “Google reads your mail” has been the entire point since the launch of GMail. Relevant ads, grouping mails into topics, find spam, etc. has always been the selling point of GMail.
How to “opt out”:
- Open Gmail desktop in browser
- Settings icon
View all settingsGeneraltab- Unchecked
Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet
I think it’s cute how everyone thinks that just by clicking the little opt-out button they’re actually going to magically not have already fed your entire email backlog into their massive AI database. 😂
But hey, scouts honor, if you click that opt-out button they promise never to use any of your new emails in their constant information scape of your life.
You’re probably right, and that’s why it is in quotes, but I figured if I can save some people from reading a “there’s no readon this is 12 screens long” article I would.
FWIW I dont use Gmail at all anyway.
Mine was already off and I don’t remember turning it off. I’m gonna assume it does nothing.
I tried this and was no longer able to separate my email into Primary Updates and Promotions, and I started getting pings for every stupid ad. So I put it back. I think I’ll start sending weird emails to myself; “teach your kids (the AI) to talk wrong.”
It did the same for me but I took it as an opportunity to wisely unsubscribe from all the crap in my gmail
Yes you are wise. I have a couple gifts ordered from companies who have decided to bombard me with spam, but I need to track the order until it arrives and then I can block them.
You can usually unsubscribe from the marketing emails and still get the tracking notifications if you don’t want to wait
Edit: Also the ‘wisely’ was supposed to be ‘finally’ haha autocorrect needs to lay off the whiskey
Just to add to this. Having a unsubscribe link in emails is a common way to trick ppl into clicking links, so if you do not know where the email comes from then just block it.
I just make judicious use of filters, especially if I don’t know if the company will honor the unsubscribe preference or just use that to confirm my email.
I have a number of emails and strings in filters that are an automatic delete because so many companies fucking spam shit constantly.
If they give you a standard tracking number just slap it into https://www.packagetrackr.com/ and call it a day
Like a consent button will stop them doing it anyway. Consent is something for little people. They don’t believe in it.
If it sees my attachments then all it’s gonna get is a lot of very poorly written smut. Happy to help make the lying machine worse, guys.
Yeah have fun with my newsletters, receipts and spam.
Like, literally. I have not sent a private email since 2010 xD
Yeah, I only have my gmail accounts for logins to various websites. They will only have LLM generated spam emails to train on from this
I think we should stay and teach it to swear. A lot. I want it to casually throw things like “fuckery” and “suck start a shotgun” into business emails.
I only have one fake google account on an isolated VM with dedicated VPN. For the rare cases it’s unavoidable for something. Whoever actually uses gmail, will get what they pay for.
But this is probably anti-AI-ragebait anyway.
wtf is your threat model where you’re using a throwaway gmail in a vm on a vpn? you in iran or something bro? shiiiiiiiiit
Hehe, nah, germany. But I like my privacy and don’t like gifting away my data for free :)
and that’s how Gemini 3 is made?
I use thunderbird but I don’t know what email server to use!! No outlook because fuck Microsoft too, but my Gmail gotta go too if it’s this blatantly intrusive. Who do I use?? I’m too poor to host myself.
Who is down voting me for this? I am asking a serious question. 😭
Hehe idk.
posteo for 1 eur/month? (Heard good stuff)
ProtonMail is a good free option (if I were paying and didn’t care about using my own custom domain posteo seems a lot better & cheaper)
Proton mail charges to be compatible with Thunderbird I tried that already.
True, forgot about that. They are the best free option that forces you to use webmail if you don’t want to pay (and their app).
I’m not sure if there are any other free mail providers that i’d trust to be honest (if I absolutely can’t pay for one, I’d just live with protons webmail).
Posteo should work for you and it’s very cheap (1 eur).
If you can afford $20/year, that’d be $10 for a domain and $10 for purelymail account, that’s an option.
Cool it is being trained on a ton of spam and vendor emails…
