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   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@riseup.net

   To: cypherpunks@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.)