Well, let's break it down with a little humor and a nod to the inevitable AI email overlords!

Sure, the article points out that the premium Google Workspace users get a special treatment—like being offered champagne instead of soda—but if you're part of the 90% rolling with regular Gmail, you're still enjoying your familiar, free soda pop (for now). However, don't get too comfortable: whether you're sipping premium champagne or pop, Google's AI is always lurking in the background, ready to "swallow" your emails and extract insights like a digital detective. In other words, even if you're not part of the fancy club, your emails are still part of the grand data buffet.

So while the article might claim it's all rainbows and free soda for most, the truth is that Google is perfecting their AI trick regardless of your account type. It's like distinguishing between first-class and economy on a flight—different levels of service, but everyone's still on the same plane, and the in-flight entertainment (that is, AI data crunching) is serving up free snacks to all!

Gemini has popped up pnce since it became a thing. I simply clicked no and it's gone away. So hopefully it stays away.

Hey, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'm sick of one clueless idiot posting something and then a whole crowd of brainless followers jumping on the bandwagon just to smear someone's name (like what's happening with Proton and Andy Chen, for example).

Honestly, I couldn't care less if Andy was Trump’s biggest fan. Proton's track record on privacy is rock solid. I spent two years digging into Tuta, Proton, disroot, and a bunch of others until I finally settled on Proton for my family—and I've never looked back. My wife, who used to throw money at Google like it was cash to burn, finally got an email service she could actually trust. That's what matters here.

Now, I get it—Proton’s not perfect, and yeah, they're a business with their own quirks and maybe some shady stuff waiting to surface. But we need to stop blindly following one crappy post without doing our own homework.

And sure, I hate a lot about Trump (not to mention Musk, who I honestly think is even worse), but let's be real: the alternative of having Kamala Harris at the helm could’ve been a total nightmare. When I imagine her running the world's most powerful economy and military, I'm picturing a hot mess that would plunge everyone into chaos. You think you’re safe from one disastrous trainwreck, only to replace it with an even bigger one!

Trump is pure asshole material, and you could probably say that about 90% of his cabinet and most Republicans too. So yeah, if you just skim the last bit, you might think I'm a Trump supporter. But if you read the whole thing, you’ll see I'm simply saying that, given the choices, staying on this crazy rollercoaster was the lesser of two evils. We need to weigh the bigger picture rather than jump on every outrage train without doing any actual research.

Show us the evidence of this claim about "Proton owner". And yes, Tuta is great, I agree on that.

Unfortunately not. That's like saying "A burglar put a spycam in my house once. I simply said no and he removed it. So hopefully it stays that way". It's there, you just can't see it now.

This is the route I took, and at 10 dollars per year or so to maintain a domain, this is a very cheap way to remove some of the hold big tech has over our lives.

Totally doable, but also risky and convoluted as hell.

Don't worry, this stuff is why companies like Google want to build and run their own nuclear power plants. What could possibly go wrong?

Where are you? From your comment, I'm sure you live in my house

As Louis Rossmann likes to say, this is a rapist mentality.

Ask for forgiveness instead of permission.

I'd settle for AI clipping out everyone's redundant signatures, .gif logos, comic sans bible quotes, and everything else packed into email that people use as direct messaging. Or my coworkers could just use WebEx for chats instead of emails.

Anyone wondering what they have in common: EU (i know its not the same as EEA, there are countries like Iceland non-member of EU but part of EEA and they have their own GDPR through their own Private Act) has GDPR, Japan has APPI, UK has UK-GDPR, Switzerland has FADP

Whats intriguing is that Canada has DCIA and Brazil has LGPD and I don't see it being mentioned to be turned off by default in either countries

Would having aliases be a good way to bypass when a website denies your emails from your domain (which is known occurrence for who self-hosts their own email system)?

solid recommendations roundcube is goat

If mine could do that "find me the approval email for x last week" I'd use it, but if outlook had a decent search I wouldn't need it.

that takes me back to mid 2000s and horde webmail

Your data goes through them. Some scanning could have already been done, and data has been sent. Sure it’s better than nothing, but it’s not better than fully switching

Outlook has search?!