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On 3/18/20 3:01 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 17/03/2020 18:57, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
Am logged in to
Gmail

I never thought ANYONE of a computer literate nature would use gmail,
especially not on a web interface.

I had to have a gmail account for android, but I sure dont ever use
it,and its accessed via IMAP

I have a gmail address, as necessary for an Android tablet and phone.
There has never been anything in that mailbox that Google itself didn't
put there.

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On 2020-03-18 05:31, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
Cool, thanks. Although I think I don't have it available in 32 bit Linux.

It is. Just go to their website

On 18/03/2020 20:53, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 3/18/20 3:01 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 17/03/2020 18:57, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
Am logged in to
Gmail

I never thought ANYONE of a computer literate nature would use gmail,
especially not on a web interface.

I had to have a gmail account for android, but I sure dont ever use
it,and its accessed via IMAP

I have a gmail address, as necessary for an Android tablet and phone.
There has never been anything in that mailbox that Google itself didn't
put there.

I've occasionally used it to test email as it uses other than my normal
servers and relays


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let them."

Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
[...]

As I said, if you use two browsers with one logged in to Gmail or any
other Google service and the other not logged in while doing web searches
with Google, they don't know it's the same user. Only the IP is the
same. But you could sit in a public WIFI hotspot with dozen others logged
in to Google services. Google would be foolish to assume if there are
more than one session with the same IP that must be the same user.

Well, Google *is* that foolish. If I do something on my laptop, Google
(et al.) is perfectly happy to put related ads on my wife's laptop and
vice versa, 'because' we're sharing the same (NAT) IP.

[...]

"Andreas Kohlbach" wrote

| Yes. The IP that google-analytics, googletagmanager,
| *.googleapis.com, doubleclick, gstatic and so on are
| getting in your "private" browser. Having a privacy
| strategy with gmail is like storing your water supply in
| a sieve.
|
| I installed fingerprinting in Chromium. Firefox has the function built-in
| but must be enabled. Thus every time I am on a Google site I have a
| different unique fingerprint.

I'm afraid you're dreaming. That might be slightly
helpful when sites are using it, but you're on a Google
site! Presumably you're logged in. Even if you delete
their cookies and block their script, they get your IP
address. Now look at the source code of *any* other
site you visit. The vast majority link back to at least
one Google service. Do you imagine the Googlites don't
take advantage of that connection? That's their whole
business! These are the same people who were caught
recording snippets of wifi data as their mapping van
drove by houses with unprotected wifi. And they lied
about it. Google are sleazy. They're a spyware company.
And they lie repeatedly, about almost everything. Even
when they offer privacy settings in Android they lie
about it and circumvent them.

If you don't care about privacy that's your choice.
But it's foolhardy to think you care about privacy and
then use Google services.