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I have been reading the fine print on Yahoo and Google about how they gather personal info.
So I wonder does anybody have a email site you trust more than the big 2? (Maybe I'm paranoid), but I trust big brother (my government) less and less and I don't appreciate help from my email provider.
Any suggestions?

There are no safe providers. Truth is they all need money and let advertisers in, cookies (and worse) on your machine, or eventually sell out to bigger providers who use your info anyway. .

When you buy into the internet, you buy into the fact that every detail of what you do and say is being monitored and stored, to sell you something , to find out who you are, what you are interested in, and where you are, for polls and scientific enquiry. NOTHING is secret or sacred on the internet. Every page you turn, every click is monitored.

That is how it is.

Have you tried Gmail?

G mail IS Google.

They will all collect information on you.

The thing is since 911 the ammount of imfo. collected using key words like 911 for example is proving to be way too difficult to deal with.

I seen a list of the key words some years back and I found it hilarious, you can google this and find everything from serious sites to ridiculous conspiracy ones.

So if you wish to take over the world (Before I do, that is.) Do not spell it out in plain English because the powers that be will steal your ideas and use them for their own gain.

But you can tell me, I won't tell anyone - promise. And I thought there was only Georgie porgy and the Brain trying to take over, DAMM!

YA, Ve are vatching yu - ve know vu have plans to take over ze vold frum Zonegal, Ya all dis Poetry is code, ve have it cracked, ve are coming to get you ha ha

Patrick, Im forever removing cookies and running my spyware programmes, is there much point?

Okay I had a brain fart, ignore my gmail please.

Yeah it is a pain, Microsoft are the biggest culprits. The cookies and adware just try to get you to go to the sites they want you to go to in order to sell you something.

The complex ones (Rarer) record your keystrokes and send them to a remote location where another computer analyses them and when it detects a sequence of numbers corresponding to a credit card No. bank account etc it alerts the user who then tries to steal your identity and use your credit.

Putting it as simply as possible, if you run anti-virus every day and keep it updated you will not have a problem.
Use paypal for all transactions on internet if you are still worried.
Buy a Mac if you are still worried. (Virus Free) and wish to take over the world

Vu Vay tink dis is vunny, ve are vatching vu now vith google vearth, ve can see ur hausen, YA und die garden needs veeding YA

Oh thats good, I do use pay pal and have the antivirus running all the time as well as a spyware prog and another that I use every few days - I like ccleaner too for getting rid of stuff that clutters up the hard drive.

At least its minimising intrusions as best we can - for when the take over begins

And if you know how to, do a reboot once a year with microsoft,

A lot of companies are making lots of money out of scaremongring people with false stories about identity theft etc, Norton being top of the list - sorry they now call themselves Synpatics (Wrong spelling)

Whats that? do you mean to reinstall windows every year?

Yes - can be a problem sometimes depending on system you have as Microsoft do not supply reboot cd's with computer but lately you can make them yourself from the existing system.

I am not joking about Mac by the way, no viruses and all macs come with full reboot cd's also way more reliable system. and now affordable. My first mac 6 yrs ago cost €7,000. This six year old Mac is still doing professional broadcast quality video editing and looks like I will get another 3+ yrs out of it

The Mac laptop I am typing on cost less than €1,000 and is streets ahead of the top of the range HP beside it that cost nearly twice that and failed to sell it secondhand cheaply.

Trust? That word doesn't apply to anything you write, type, or erase on internet, because they can easily dig it up and do pretty much what they want.

Macintoshes are the best. I also edit video on Mac and do all my inet stuff.

No viruses and no worries.

But I am considering smaller email sites for more private docs.

Macintoshes are the best. I also edit video on Mac and do all my inet stuff.

No viruses and no worries.

But I am considering smaller email sites for more private docs.

Use Tor, it bounces emails around various hosts to preserve anonyminity, used by most diplomats and criminal's on the net! not yet illegal but the powers that be are working to make it so, and failing