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Originally Posted by haertig
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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Gmail is one of the best email servers for spam. I does an excellent job of catching spam and not valid email. I would say it's more then 99% accurate but not 100%. I moved to Gmail a good while ago so I would never again have to sort out the problem of changing an email address. I do use Gmail and I've never had a problem with it. I also use outlook (email server).
If you want privacy, the Internet is not where you get it. How do you know your ISP email is private?