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posted by janrinok on Tuesday May 01 2018, @02:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-you-see-me,-now-you-don't dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Google will slowly be rolling out a number of changes for consumer Gmail users and G Suite users. Some of the changes improve usability and productivity, while others are meant to maximize data and user protection. Some of the new security options should help enterprise users meed GDPR compliance needs.

[...] Gmail confidential mode will allow users to:

  • Set expiration dates for emails or revoke previously sent messages
  • Secure access to the contents of emails by requiring recipients to enter a password
  • Restrict the recipients’ ability to forward, copy, download or print emails.

These things will be possible because these emails will not be actually downloaded in the recipients’ inbox, but will be placed on a separate page/window where their content can be viewed, and the email will show that page.

Guess I'll be switching to ProtonMail for my webmail needs, which, granted, are few.

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/04/26/gmail-self-destructing-emails/


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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday May 01 2018, @04:29PM (4 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 01 2018, @04:29PM (#674194)

    I was so chill and buzzed I didn't even close my quote tag, huh... F I just got an email from Digikey they're now selling 750 watt RF transistors for 900 MHz ISM apps (or ham apps for me, I guess), clicked thru, damn $315.89 each, I'll get back to you boys on that later, hit delete, ahh, back to inbox-zero chill again

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:28PM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:28PM (#674216)

    I generally remember some kind of "seen it before" subject line, and then scan forward from there, opening anything interesting along the way. It used to be that I would scan forward from the last e-mail I opened and if none were interesting I'd open the newest one just to mark it read, but Gmail started this Unread/Important/Everything Else sorting that, sort of, seems to make my un-filtered inbox a little quicker to deal with, if harder to explain the algorithm.

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    • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:52PM (1 child)

      by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:52PM (#674228)

      Well... thats a valid and workable algorithm. But there's a difference between a workable algorithm, and inbox-zero levels of chill that are so chill I don't need legalized marijuana, I just need an empty inbox. Beyond it merely working, is it fun?

      With a side dish of I hate seeing a "todo" item sit in there uncontrollably for a long time. On long term average they may be equally enjoyable, although the std-deviation of fun for inbox-zero is almost certainly much higher.

      • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday May 01 2018, @07:28PM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday May 01 2018, @07:28PM (#674276)

        My work inbox is currently at 29 unread, and I know that 29 were not really important - just something I thought I might want to circle back to someday.

        Then, there are 8 pinned (a MS Office thing), they are usually about future events that I'm too lazy to try to fit into a calendar item. Then there's the calendar - which I was much happier with Google's calendar when I used that at my last company, but they got bought by a big fish and me along with them, so now I use Office 365.

        The inbox itself is never "emptied" - I just let them roll out automatically at the end of the 2 year period, and bitch loudly when I'm asked about something that I had in an e-mail 26 months ago.

        I find it liberating to be able to accept a non-zero inbox count. A few new ones? Not so different from status-quo, but if status-quo is zero - then it will be perpetually being put into a bad state by trivial junk.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 03 2018, @09:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 03 2018, @09:28PM (#675323)

    > 750 watt RF transistors for 900 MHz ISM apps (or ham apps for me, I guess),

    YES!!!!

    > damn $315.89 each

    Fuuuuuuck. :(