I did the same ages ago

I purely use it to get the lil dot where i touch

that's fine haha

instead of making a gmail with a vpn why not use ProtonMail @shekels

Look at that lil dude go wooo

whats a ProtonMail?

there you go, go look

smaller email provider

I know about Hushmail but it costs and im a jew

based in switzerland focused on privacy

i think you get 500mb mailbox for free which is plenty

i may just get one

i'm stuck on gmail because i've had it since 2010 or something and everything is set up on it and i'm lazy

Same tbh

i'll probably abandon gmail soon

tbh i'm not that bothered about them getting my emails because the most they do is anonymously scrape them for shit

and i don't get very interesting stuff through my email lol

i have 4 email adresses i use on the regular. every single on them is filled up with spam. the worst one has 8k unreads

"hoho, I see auntie Val sent you photos"

I miss Christmas dinner already tbh

so essentially they are scraping my mails for shit.

most of my emails are just Nintendo purchases, Apple sign in, Instagram sign in, steam guard codes, some uni shit

Normie stuff

haha

they used to use your emails to target ads but i think they stopped doing that after backlash @Dead

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/23/15862492/google-gmail-advertising-targeting-privacy-cloud-business

The fact the did it to begin with.

and as much as i care about privacy and online freedom etc.

i'm really not important

(i know it's a bad mindset though)

Neither

Think most have that mindset.

yeah

well, what ads ? 99% of all the ads i get are porn ads, they know im a dude. fair enough but... they clearly have no idea what i spend my money on.

All my google email consists of is sexual performance enhancer offers, russian singles and local sluts and people trying to give me free money

even if they scrape some info from me, i have personalised ads turned off and i'm blocking ads on desktop and mobile

I googled fridge freezers months ago still get ads for them.

What ads get through anyways.

gmail is good for hiding in plain sight

@Limmat Just made a protonmail mi nibba

so they probably made like 50p from my info over the last 10 years lol