**miramarco** @miramarco@octodon.social · Apr 16, 2018, 21:21

**miramarco** @miramarco@octodon.social · Apr 16, 2018, 21:21

miramarco @miramarco@octodon.social

Gmail's upcoming self-destructing emails will require the recipients to click on a link and log in with their #Google accounts to see the content, if they are accessing via IMAP/SMTP.

Don't be fooled: Google's purpose is not to give us more confidentiality. They want all of their users to access their mailboxes via the Gmail app or their web interface, so they are creating a burden to the recipients and calling it “security” to convince people to adopt it.

**𝓗Ⲝ𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓫𝓵ⲜⲜ𝓭** @h3artbl33d@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2018, 20:16

**𝓗Ⲝ𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓫𝓵ⲜⲜ𝓭** @h3artbl33d@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2018, 20:16

@miramarco

Pardon my French: they can go fuck themselves.

There is no way that I am ever clicking one of those links. If shit is confidential, e-mail is not the medium one should be choosing.

I have a well-kept archive of my e-mail since 2011. Only SPAM and newsletters get thrown out. Rest stays.

**Alex 🔏** @lx · 2018-04-18T20:56:56Z

Alex 🔏 @lx

@h3artbl33d @miramarco +1. If I ever get one of those mails I will reply with "sorry, I think your email got corrupted, can you send it again?" 😅

Apr 18, 2018, 20:56 · Tusky · 0 · 3

**𝓗Ⲝ𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓫𝓵ⲜⲜ𝓭** @h3artbl33d@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2018, 21:01

**𝓗Ⲝ𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓫𝓵ⲜⲜ𝓭** @h3artbl33d@mastodon.social · Apr 18, 2018, 21:01

@lx
@miramarco

I am putting up a webpage with why I consider those mails to be madness, setup a filter with an automated reply and route the received self-distructing mails to /dev/null.