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rs186 on Aug 29, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy

Gmail used to serve ads based on your emails for many years until 2017. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/26/534451513...

skylurk on Aug 29, 2025 [–]

And in 2010 they made https the default. Different times :)

j4hdufd8 on Aug 29, 2025 | [–]

I don't think https is responsible for that. Google owns the data, it doesn't matter how it is transported. It does, however, matter how it is stored (which I hope is encrypted in a way only you can retrieve it)

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