Google recommends not to use end-to-end encryption for GMail. Why?

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18 pointskricko5 comments

Gmail is built around the idea of storing and searching your mail. How can anyone think gmail will ever really support anything that makes its search function inoperative?

Independent of whether end-to-end encryption is a good idea, independent of how much the gmail maintainers care about advertising revenue (compared to their gmail-for-businesses product): How can anyone expect them to effectively disable the core feature of their product?

You can have your email downloaded locally and then you can search through it. With PGP you can still search by metadata anyway.

Sure, and only half-break the search function. Do you expect the gmail developers to like that?

Maybe it's a good idea. Or not. But it sounds a lot easier to set up your own server than to persuade the gmail developers to change the core priorities of their system.

Metadata: if it's good enough for the NSA it should be good enough for you! </s>

Hilarious. Great idea to tell people: Give us all your data, else we can't make your life convenient.

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