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Anyone here use Gmail? Or probably any of the other "free" email providers? If you do, you should probably refrain from bringing up privacy concerns to other people.
Yeah, I use Gmail for some things. Not my personal email account though. For example, I use a Gmail account when I sign up for forums (like this one) that require an email address. I also use Gmail when I purchase something online and have to give the retailer an email address. So there are indeed valid uses for privacy-killing free email addresses. One of those uses is to be a spam-sucker account that you don't have to worry much about giving out to potential spammers. I do look for and read/respond to certain emails that come into this Gmail account (the ones that I am expecting to receive). But most of the crap that eventually accumulates is ignored (actually, immediately sent to the trash by filters, before I even see it with my own eyes).
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