Yes, but haven't figured out how to stop the text message issue yet. I've also got other email accounts with another email provider to compartmentalize. ------------- Max Charleston SC
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 8:14 AM Dan--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Have you bothered to go into your Google account and minimize the data > they can collect? Using Activity Controls and Ad Settings can cut down > significantly on the data they have access to. After that you use their > Takeout tool to download your data history and clean that out, too. > > There are other means of denying them information if you do some research. > > This is also why I don’t use a Google account for my primary email. > > -D > > > On May 30, 2019, at 7:26 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > Alphabet/Google reads all my text messages, that is troubling. They've > > already got a ton of other info, and info is power, so denying them some > of > > my info is better than denying them none. > > > > In my opinion, this reason alone is sufficient to encourage all my > friends > > and family to switch over to Signal. Whatsapp is owned by fakebook, so > > that's not an option. > > ------------- > > Max > > Charleston SC > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com