For the love of Mining

[Mirimir]

On 08/23/2016 03:44 PM, Layxt wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: For the love of Mining
> Local Time: August 23, 2016 2:07 PM
> UTC Time: August 23, 2016 9:07 PM
> From: mirimir at riseup.net
> To: cypherpunks at cpunks.org
> 
> On 08/23/2016 02:16 PM, grarpamp wrote:
>> So for the past six months or so google has decided to infesting their
>> gmail webmail with tracking redirectors on all things that look like links.
>> To be expected, and fuck em straight to hell.
>>
>> But who else find it hilarious they chose 'usg' as the tracking
>> parameter name ;)
>>
>> http://www.google.com/url?q=http://<hostname>&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=<token>
> 
> So why use GMail?
> 
> 
> I often wonder the same thing myself. I think the answer is that nobody who really cares about their privacy does. But then again, it's not like the other solutions available to the lay person are necessarily much better, particularly the free ones. 'cept maybe ProtonMail. (Let's hope.)

Bro, grarpamp is _not_ a "lay person" ;)

So I'm curious, that's all.