@ricci Thank you, that’s v interesting about opening...

@ricci Thank you, that’s v interesting about opening the images. I understand about the gmail content, & use other email accounts for almost all correspondence, but am concerned about recent assertions that being “logged in” to gmail (as Thunderbird always is? & the gmail app on Android?) enables google to hoover up other data on the device. Does it?

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Rob Ricci

@ClaireFromClare No, it should not allow them to do this. They can likely tell, in a general sense, where you are logged in from (country, maybe even city) but it should not allow them access to any other data. In general, I would trust Thunderbird and other third-party apps to be safer in this respect than the official gmail app.

8 Sep 2023 at 6:44 | Open on discuss.systems

Claire Barnes

@ricci Terrific about Thunderbird, thanks so much for the reply & advice.
I have the gmail app on Android & can’t see any way to log out of it - maybe I should delete the app? but have the impression that Google can get so much data from Android phones anyway that it may not make much difference? & degoogling an Android sounds challenging?
Some banks in Singapore have adopted compulsory phone-based security which won’t work if you have a single app on the phone not sourced from PlayStore :(

8 Sep 2023 at 7:20 | Open on h-net.social