Really depends on the company. For example American ISPs definitely do that, but then again they aren’t really privacy oriented anyway. Look for an email company that is more privacy focused. Companies like that aren’t really playing the same game as Amazon, Microsoft and other.
Hamartiogonic
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It’s a package deal in each case, so you’re not really getting the same thing.
- When you don’t pay, you get email services, but you sacrifice your privacy.
- When you pay, you get email services, and you get to keep your privacy.
Of course, people don’t see equal value in these things. You might not appreciate privacy as much as someone else, and that’s ok. You make your own compromises based on your personal values. We all make compromise at some point.
But maybe you would pay for the service of someone else doing all the server stuffs and software development on your behalf? If you’re a paying customer, the company should also respect you and your privacy.
On the other hand, if you’re using the service for free, then the incentives suddenly shift towards you being the product.
Feels somewhat familiar, doesn’t it.
Clicks the link, and mlem opens the site in FF focus that deletes all cookies when I close it.
“outside of a few areas such as coding, companies have found generative AI isn't the panacea they once imagined.”
It certainly helps with coding, but a human still needs to fix all the mistakes.
No clutter, meant faster loading time, and that was important at the time. Nowadays, you can just type the search query to the address bar, but that wasn’t available back then. Initially, you didn’t even have one of those extra toolbars with a little search box, so loading the search page was the only way. If you do like 50 searches a day, those seconds spent on waiting the page to load really begin to add up.
People don’t read the contracts, so companies just exploit that habit.
It certainly was cool and popular from day one. However, it was also spyware from day one. Tech magazines wrote reviews about it, but the hype train was going so fast at the time that people somehow ignored the privacy aspect.
Nowadays people are beginning to realize just how evil it has always been.