{"id":1977,"date":"2026-09-16T12:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2026-09-16T12:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T03:09:22","slug":"free-email-comes-with-a-cost-and-its-more-than-data-scraping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"Free email comes with a cost, and it\u2019s more than data scraping."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are numerous videos going around that warn of the not-surprising reality that Google is, as a default, scanning all your gmail content to train AI. The videos tell you how to turn that default setting off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s fine, but a better solution that provides advantages other than just freedom from data scraping is not to use Gmail at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a Gmail account, but I never use it for email exchanges. I only send email using addresses associated with my own domain and use gmail just for subscriptions to newsletters and the like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it appears that billions of people use Gmail, it is not professional looking and shows that you didn\u2019t care enough to pay just a little bit of money to get a real email address. This is particularly significant for people using email for business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gmail screams cheap and not seriously committed. People need to discard the ideas that everything that is useful must be free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are numerous videos going around that warn of the not-surprising reality that Google is, as a default, scanning all your gmail content to train AI. The videos tell you how to turn that default setting off. That\u2019s fine, but a better solution that provides advantages other than just freedom from data scraping is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/?p=1977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free email comes with a cost, and it\u2019s more than data scraping.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[20,244],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business","tag-gmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirameki-translation.co.jp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}