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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
You should not be using gmail if you are worried about google indexing your personal data. They already do with you emails - and how more personal can it get. I do think it has benefits as you can full-text search your emails - and it uses the same good working search engine as for regular web searches.
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You can disable indexing of emails for advertising purposes in the app engine settings (Business and Edu accounts)
Maybe I should, but I don't find the contents of my email as personal as my other data like photos, videos and docs. That may be down to the type of email I send/receive which is predominantly mailing list oriented and they're public anyway. Sure I'd rather others don't see it as with all my data, but as far as keywording by google for advertising purposes, I wouldn't be too worried even if I couldn't disable the ad indexing.
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As a matter of fact, don't ever use unencrypted email if you a worried about anyone beeing able to read it. SMTP is not meant for privacy - several copies are made on its way to the recipient by all mail-servers it hops through.
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I use both IMAP and SMTP over SSL. That's not really to prevent reading by my ISP or at hops along the way, more to prevent casual snoopers at public wifi spots. Not infalible (diginotar), but good enough for me.