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r0ertel@lemmy.world a day ago
Imagine the day when you go to some web site and see a picture of your wife, with a caption saying something like, “isn’t it time that you talked to your doctor about Viagra?” How about those pre video ads on YouTube with your dead grandma, telling you to consider cremation?
What does that really mean, to use your data for ad targeting? Can they use your pictures to generate an AI image of those you love?
I see lots of posts that it doesn’t affect you because you’re not on Google services. What about that friend who took pictures at last week’s happy hour? Grandma sharing pictures of her favorite granddaughter with her pickle ball group? Unless you’re a hermit, you can’t stop the slow trickle of your personal data being sucked up and stored for generations. It’s your data, where are the laws to protect it?
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kalman@dboft.com 2 days ago
I'm out. Moving my family .... including my 81 year old parents to Proton. They can do it - we have already moved to signal .. no issues.
noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My biggest blocker by far in moving away, is calendars.
My family has so many interconnected calendars (I personally have 12 on my phone right now) and I still haven’t seen that anything else can do what Google does with calendars. My entire family (minus ex wife) is using Gmail on our own domain, and the ex still has r/w access to our kids’ calendars (for noting play dates, doctor’s appts, etc).
Even syncing Google with Outlook is pure hell - in both directions - and that’s before you start adding the interference from employers’ firewalls and shit.
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trojanbark@lemmy.world 2 days ago
took us awhile with the calendars (like, over a month) but we managed
Guy Dudeman@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah I’m at that point now too. Only issue is storage. I want to move my entire Gmail inbox but it’s too big for the free plan. Might have to cough up some dough if I can’t find a better alternative.
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berty@feddit.org 2 days ago
If you don’t need it to be in a cloud/migrate to a new mailservice you could use something like Thunderbird and store it locally on your PC.
brem@lemmy.world 2 days ago
More unfiltered bullshit in inbox just means the remaining people will leave Gmail
It’s almost like being allowed to move King to Checkmate or check or whatever. Chess, mofo.
eicker@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Google: We would never use your Gmail to target ads. Also Google: If you voluntarily pour your Gmail into our AI blender, whatever comes out may help target ads. Technically, we’re not reading your diary. We’re just selling billboards next to the therapist’s summary of it. Privacy by wordplay is still surveillance with better PR.
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sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone a day ago
Also the features you always used to use are now part of our AI system and continuing to use them counts as voluntarily agreeing to the new terms.