We get a lot free online and I'm happy to look at ads or have ads present to keep good sites and services free. Google Now is really useful and I don't do anything online that I want to hide so Google are welcome to look at my stuff if it means I get good and useful services.If you don't pay for the product... YOU are the product. I don't use Gmail anymore, and am moving away from Google services generally.
I bet them Fox news recruitment ads are rolling in, mind.I occasionally chunk in random words like "kill Obama ECHELON compromised security breaches" and other than being followed everywhere by a Reaper drone nothing untoward has happened.
We get a lot free online and I'm happy to look at ads or have ads present to keep good sites and services free. Google Now is really useful and I don't do anything online that I want to hide so Google are welcome to look at my stuff if it means I get good and useful services.
If a site of service shows ads that are too intrusive I'll stop using their site or service and tell them why. I do hate spam though. I think Google have the balance about right.
I'm not advocating giving away my privacy and don't go for the "if you having nothing to hide..." argument. As long as it's only Google's systems looking at my stuff that's fine. That's the trade off for using Gmail, Google Now, etc. If they start giving my emails to third parties I'll be off.Totally - Google offer some exceptionally good products for 'free'. And I don't think Google's ads are at all intrusive, and I don't really mind seeing ads.
I used to subscribe to the 'I've nothing to hide' way of thinking, but less and less so now. My current mail provider is based in Australia which has pretty good privacy laws around email. I just like the idea that private emails are, as best as I can manage, private.
When they start to offer you the expensive ones you really should take stock of your activitiesAhhh! ...... So that's why I keep being offered cheap gimp masks!
That's a common discussion on the Security Now podcast. There's not much that can be done really either. PGP can help. Services like Gmail and MS's Outlook.com use end to end encryption between our browsers or email clients and their servers so Gmail to Gmail or Outlook.com to Outlook.com should be encrypted in transit but is probably stored in the clear on the server.Email is plain text, sent in the clear. You don't know what servers it goes through nor who can read it. It is insecure.
I've a drone?I occasionally chunk in random words like "kill Obama ECHELON compromised security breaches" and other than being followed everywhere by a Reaper drone nothing untoward has happened.
That's a common discussion on the Security Now podcast. There's not much that can be done really either. PGP can help. Services like Gmail and MS's Outlook.com use end to end encryption between our browsers or email clients and their servers so Gmail to Gmail or Outlook.com to Outlook.com should be encrypted in transit but is probably stored in the clear on the server.
Yep. Been listening to Steve and Leo since the start.Ah, another SN fan.