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Walt Mankowski via plug on 6 Jan 2026 08:57:58 -0800
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Re: [PLUG] Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
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- From: Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 11:57:52 -0500
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 11:33:22AM -0500, Frank via plug wrote:
> This relates to the original post, in that I can't imagine any Linux users
> would be using Gmail, since one of the reasons for using Linux is to avoid
> data mining that comes with other operating systems, and Gmail is owned by
> Alphabet, which is arguably the largest data mining company on the planet
> right now.
I hear you. I don't use Gmail either, but they're impossible to avoid.
I'd estimate that 75-80% of the traffic to this list comes from Gmail
addresses, so anything you post here will end up in 100s of Gmail
accounts.
Gmail has become so ubiquitous that the only way to be be sure your
email won't get data mined is to encrypt everything you send.
Walt
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