According to a report, several email providers routinely scrape users' in-boxes. There was a lot of discussion over this when gmail was scraping for ad delivery, but many of these other providers seem to have gone unnoticed.
All the more reason to utilise the features of a dedicated/virtual server.
With virtuals on Linux servers I prefer not to use the host provided control panel and instead use Webmin. Setting up POP and Sendmail from Webmin is a simple task.
engine
8:13 am on Feb 12, 2020 (gmt 0)
All the more reason to utilise the features of a dedicated/virtual server.
For non tech people, that's not an option.
Very slowly people are waking up to the fact that if it's free, they are the product.
lammert
10:55 am on Feb 12, 2020 (gmt 0)
Typical clickbait head-line IMHO. I expected large email providers like Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo to be named in the article.
Instead, it is about three utility apps of which I have never heard before. These are all apps for which users give explicit consent to allow scanning the contents of their emails. If you think that you can give a free app permission to scan the contents of all your mails, and then also assume that the result of these scans will never be used for other purposes please continue dreaming.
