• GigglyBobble@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      No, they can’t since I don’t have a Google mail address. Even if I had, they’d have a harder time building a social graph when I communicate with others outside of Gmail.

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        9 months ago

        Okay, but unless all of your communication is e2e encrypted, your provider can read all of your messages. They can even show you ads based on the contents. Oh, you bought vitamins on Amazon? How about some minerals?

        If I send messages with matrix, the matrix server admin cannot read them. If I cared about them seeing who I’m talking to, I would run my own server