Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:19:07 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> To: RW via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: What are good mail hosts to use with FreeBSD mailing lists? Message-ID: <20210210235831.765254e2.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> In-Reply-To: <20210210170247.52853d16@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <PH0PR01MB6523127AB2337C5F2DA87EADD4B19@PH0PR01MB6523.prod.exchangelabs.com> <25de0d19-1bb6-610f-c0cb-ef7721086902@panix.com> <24606.3187.85211.65015@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <587ffb90-4041-7e96-f9f7-0f0ff8827587@yuripv.dev> <f60188f7-db62-c6c6-3717-855202a18e12@panix.com> <B71E31B7-FE3C-4A26-A461-3CC286905AE3@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20210209145843.079389a3@gumby.homeunix.com> <8b80d4a7-3fd3-b032-6d19-a940b3e736c4@panix.com> <20210210170247.52853d16@gumby.homeunix.com>
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Hi, On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 17:02:47 +0000 RW via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 14:30:24 -0500 > Kurt Hackenberg wrote: > > > On 2/9/21 9:58 AM, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: > > > > > I only use this gmail account for mailing list and only with a > > > traditional MUA. I don't see any ads or give them anything that > > > isn't already public. > > > > Google knows who you are across your use of all their services, by > > identifying your computer(s). A separate Gmail account won't hide > > you from that. > > > > For example, your use of Gmail for this list will affect what > > videos Youtube suggests to you. > > I've never seen any evidence of that. I only get suggestions that > are similar to videos I watched. we work in a very specific field. When work-related e-mails land at our privat Google account, we get then links to paradise islands in the tropics. This takes a few weeks until a work-related e-mail arrives there again. > > I doubt google knows much about me, or their choice of adverts > wouldn't be so laughable. Two years I spent a couple of minutes on > their search engine (instead of DuckDuckGo) looking at garden > shredders and got ads that were dominated by shredders for months. > This is a minor improvement over ~15 years ago when I typed in "KDE > packages fruit salad servers" and got several years worth of > soft-fruit ads - mostly raspberries. Yes, they react much faster these days. Erich
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