Google sent out a notification that it will automatically opt you into using content from your email campaigns to help Google know what to show in Google Search, Shopping, and Maps. It will look for content around “new arrivals, sales or ongoing promotions, social media profiles, and others,” Google said.
and they’ll pay you for helping them out with their product right???
I finally just blew up my gmail the other week and not a moment to soon as it seems. Much happier with my new swiss provider.
Me, in 2005: Why would anyone use a service that scans your personal email for things to sell you?
Me 20 years later: . . so. . . tired
Most of us were fucking shitty teenagers when this shit was going down… I literally had nothing to hide haha
Then Google photos uploaded all my pictures into the cloud around 2015… It finally hit me the we are dealing with rapist culture in the tech companies
Deny the parasite profit and engagement
These people are your enemies, never forget
rapist culture
Louis Rossmann fan?
I have been guilty of enjoying his spazzing…
Just to clarify, “you” in this case refers to companies and marketers, not consumers. Looks like this news website is for marketers/SEO industry people.
So this is another headline designed to get a kneejerk reaction outta people.
Basically if I’m a store that sends out a weekly email to subscribers, Google will “read” that email for SEO purposes.
it’s the automatically opting in people have a problem with
But how do they know which email that might be? Do they even know which of my accounts are for business or personal use? If I send an email from my business email to a bunch of friends and relatives to plan a party, will Google assume those are subscribers and pull my party-planning content from my email and put that info… somewhere… on my business page? I don’t want them reading any of my emails, ever.
The email from Google was laughable in that it contained almost no info on how this process is supposed to work. All it means to me is that I don’t have control over my own content. This should have been opt-in instead of opt-out.
I assume its more of it subscribes to your newsletter same as a user would, so when you send out the newsletter to “group 1”, the google thing is also on that mailing list.
And yes, should absolutely be opt-in, per mailing list, per email.
Yeah, because they’ve been doing this to us plebs for years now.
I’m so glad I made the choice to move away from Gmail and Google search a few years ago.
i want to get away from gmail but I can’t find a replacement that doesn’t cost a service fee to be reliable.
If you won’t pay cash, then you have to pay data.
ahhh. so I guess I just can’t use email anymore. got it!
edit: /s in case it was not obvious.
Would you provide a free mail service?
In general, no, you will not be provided services at no cost. If you want to go back to the post office, they will require you to buy stamps.
Tuta has a free tier.
As does Proton.
I went with Tuta though.
That’s how the world works unfortunately, someone has to pay for it
Look into infomaniak (yes, I know, silly name), but its a serious service and very up to par with Google Suite.
thank you. i feel like i’ve seen their name around but I wasn’t quite sure what they were about.
I would ask "was it this? https://beehaw.org/comment/4363681 "
because I found it in my notes by its website preview from when I saved it, but it seems someone deleted something and lemmy shit the bed again, and you dont have have a normal descriptive link like reddit does but only an internal database ID that does not refer to anything anymore…
the post title was “is this normal for domain name registrars to do.”, and something that infomaniak did
