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Originally Posted by innocenat
This is the first time I have even seen two-factor authentication and application passwords being called "privacy theft".
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You can't easily use a different one for different Google accounts. You also have to give Google extra information, at least your phone number of a mobile. There isn't really any issue using SMTP & POP3 from anything other than public Wifi, which is insecure anyway using Oauth. The only security solution for Public WiFi is to use a VPN to a server/application to your home or office.
If you use a decent different password for everything the Google mandated 2FA isn't needed. Also mysteriously it's NOT needed for Google's mail client on Android nor on any browser used to access Google Web mail. It's a typical cynical Google/Alphabet internet land grab/privacy grab. If you use someone else's SMTP you can still send emails with gmail as from/replyto and to any gmail account. You can still setup your gmail via web, without any 2FA, to forward all email to a non-Google IMAP or POP3 account.
It's 10% security and 90% scam, approximately.
Also email by default on Android is just a Google client to a Google server. The details you put in are stored on a Google server and all the email in and out goes via Google! You can install a true 3rd party email client such as K9 email (free) on Android and then Google isn't the man in the middle. They are hypocrites!
Do you use SMS on an Android phone? You might want to install Signal as the default for SMS. Read up on how Android default SMS (Messages) works!