Which email providers do you trust? (17)
TallDarkvidpro: 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?
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.
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Have you tried Gmail?
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FishingMTgirl: Have you tried Gmail?
G mail IS Google.
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gingerb: 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.
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.
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patrickthomas: 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
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Okay I had a brain fart, ignore my gmail please. 
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trish123: Patrick, Im forever removing cookies and running my spyware programmes, is there much point?
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
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patrickthomas: 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
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
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
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trish123: 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
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)
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patrickthomas: 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)
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?
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trish123: 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.
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TallDarkvidpro: 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?
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?
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.
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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.
No viruses and no worries.
But I am considering smaller email sites for more private docs.
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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.
No viruses and no worries.
But I am considering smaller email sites for more private docs.
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TallDarkvidpro: 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.
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
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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?