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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @04:55PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @04:55PM (#674202)

    The lock-in may be just as real with Gmail, but, as the least locked-in feeling service, they have won my loyalty.

    You give your loyalty to google?! Ha, ha, ha! And we thought ethonal-fuel was the stupidest one here.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:21PM (4 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:21PM (#674214)

    give your loyalty to google

    Using them continuously for 10+ years has to count as some kind of de-facto loyalty. Show me a better, more reliable, convenient and cheaper alternative and I'll be defecting in short order.

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday May 01 2018, @10:31PM (3 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 01 2018, @10:31PM (#674338) Journal

      Get a cheap Web hosting plan and a domain name. Most will come with at least 5 mailboxen on top of which you can POP or IMAP.
      Yes, mailing apps on mobile devices will work with mail accounts outside their walls.

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      • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 02 2018, @01:13AM (2 children)

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday May 02 2018, @01:13AM (#674382)

        I have one, with a domain attached, have had the same one since the 1990s, and I think it comes with 30 e-mail boxes. I used one for years first with Eudora, then Thunderbird, later accessed via Gmail, and eventually I quit using it. I POP3ed with it, IMAPed with it for a while, if you send me an e-mail there I still get it in my gmail inbox, but I think it has dropped to zero traffic by now (still get the occasional wide SPAM barrage that just tries all common names at all domains.com). I gave a few addresses to my wife and a few other relatives, but when Eudora became impractical to continue using my wife moved away from it to Gmail too. I have been overpaying for the website and domain for years, probably could cut my expense in half if I shopped the deal - thought about trying to move it to an AWS free tier node, but... half of almost nothing is still just about almost nothing, and screwing around with it is more hassle than I ever seem to have time for. Thus, Gmail wins - even though I have this "sunk cost" service that I could use instead. Sure, they're skimming value off of reading my messages: newsflash: if I ever want to communicate something over the web that I don't want the powers that be to see... I can do that. I just don't have anything like that that I want to say to anybody who I never see face to face.

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        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday May 02 2018, @04:00AM (1 child)

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 02 2018, @04:00AM (#674442) Journal

          Well, I haven't properly factored the convenience.
          I moved my mother's email account from gmail - it started to ask for a mobile number/device/etc.
          My mother continues to not use any of these, she's using thunderbird (and no web ui) anyway, so...

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          • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 02 2018, @01:18PM

            by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday May 02 2018, @01:18PM (#674547)

            Yeah, the effort adds up: after the fourth time I had to install and configure Eudora for my wife, then I did Thunderbird for her which she hated - I think she was already in Gmail before we got phones that really did e-mail (we had some 10 key flip phones that sort of could e-mail for a long time, never used it on them)... So, I never even tried to play POP/IMAP on Android because it comes through Gmail which we were using anyway. That's a lock-in convenience that I can live with.

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