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@frankel@mastodon.top
2025-11-26 09:30:05

#Gmail can read your emails and attachments to #train its #AI, unless you opt out

[Correction] Gmail can read your emails and attachments to power "smart features"
Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2026-01-29 18:45:10

The next #DIDay is coming soon. If you want to tackle #gmail , you might want to check out my gmail migration guide:
TL;DR: it's not that much effort.

@publicvoit@graz.social
2026-01-22 10:54:43

I wonder when the average(!) person will be ready for discussions on free alternatives for popular services like #YouTube, #WhatsApp, #GMail,

@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2026-01-15 20:20:56

Finally! I wanted to document this since quite a while: The #Gmail labeling system kept me quite a while from moving my mails away from Google.
In the end it wasn't too complicated -- if you know hw to do it ... (as usual)
Anyways, I've finally written it down. Maybe it helps somebody who want's to get off GMail.
(And damn, I was surprised that it took so much time to…

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-11-24 16:58:47

In case you had not yet seen this elsewhere.
#gmail #ai #privacy #infosec

screenshot of a 2 post thread: @ash.renee411 Gmail rolled out an update on October 10, 2025, and a lot of people didn't notice what it actually does. Google's Gemini can now automatically scan everything in your inbox - emails, attachments, receipts, financial docs, all of it - to train their Al and build ad profiles. If you don't want that, you can turn it off. 1/2 @ash.renee411 1. Open Gmail in your browser 2. Go to All Settings 3. Under General, scroll to Smart features and per…
@anneroth@systemli.social
2025-11-21 08:44:08

Considering very seriously (again) to refuse to exchange emails with people who are using #Gmail.
## Update ## digipres.club/@misty/115595909
(Which doesn't ch…

Misty (@misty@digipres.club)
Attached: 1 image FYI for people who have been sharing that Malwarebytes blog post about Gmail training on your email - they misunderstood and have updated their post with a correction at the top. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

@teledyn@mstdn.ca
2025-11-15 19:32:59

To be expected I suppose, but on rejecting #GMail's auto-inclusion of #GeminiAI snoops, seems it also disables Categories, the only feature that was keeping me on their email client!
Only related by the predator, another #Google surprise is notice my website's reCAPTCHA somehow now requires #GooglCloud for which they graciously offer me $300 credit and no indications whatsoever what that buys.