For the love of Mining

[John]

Absolutely they could. Although I doubt they do, it seems far more intrusive somehow... 

Then again, I don't use Gmail.

John

On August 23, 2016 6:05:45 PM EDT, Pinoaffe <pinoaffe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm guessing you can get around this by using IMAP or POP3 to read
>your
>> email. I wonder what their monetization plan is for customers who
>read
>> their mail with an email client?
>Can't they also change the links to redirects before imap and pop3
>download them? It's probably more work to implement, but still very
>possible.
>
>On 08/23/2016 10:57 PM, Layxt wrote:
>> 
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: For the love of Mining
>>> Local Time: August 23, 2016 1:16 PM
>>> UTC Time: August 23, 2016 8:16 PM
>>> From: grarpamp at gmail.com
>>> To: cypherpunks at cpunks.org
>>>
>>> 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>
>> 
>> I'm surprised they didn't start doing this long ago. Lots of juicy
>data
>> to mine there.
>> 
>> I'm guessing you can get around this by using IMAP or POP3 to read
>your
>> email. I wonder what their monetization plan is for customers who
>read
>> their mail with an email client?

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