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Why would you wish to stick with Google? They’re probing every e-mail you’ve ever sent or received for data.

They will only become worse and worse, the trust I had in them is long gone. Just avoid them and let them go out of business

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Google is bad, but every other company and your ISP and your hardware manufacturer is also probing your emails.

It's a question of size. I use Fastmail, and even if they do that (and I hope they don't), it's a relatively small company, so the impact is also smaller.

> your ISP and your hardware manufacturer is also probing your emails

How?

Both are asked by your various governments to spy on you. I am not privy to the most current technical details - if you go through old NSA presentations that Snowden revealed I am sure you'll get the general idea of how it works.

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