If you want an opinion from a cybersecurity professional, stay off the cloud, don’t use yahoo, gmail, Hotmail, or any other flavor. Stay far away from them as possible and use your own email.
Kcbrent: Certainly sound advice, but realistically the overwhelming majority of users lack the skills or resources to do what you recommend. Not to be quarrelsome, but the only way to avoid being hurt in a car accident is to stay off the roads. However well intentioned your counsel practical advice on how to navigate the world in which we now live is of far more utility.
Bill C--It is wonderful that you had a successful migration and you are right to say that waiting for the notification of migration will minimize any difficulties folks may have --but with the caveat that given the vast array of platforms, Operating Systems, and email apps across the universe of users, it is inevitable that your solution will not just work for everyone. That is why this forum exists and why we try to help each other find solutions when we encounter difficulties. Witness the dozens of users who have visited this forum in search of answers when nothing worked out of the box.
I get that, but as long as people understand how things work.
There is an old saying “there is no cloud, it is just someone else’s computer”. It is unavoidable in the corporate/Enterprise world , but it can be somewhat limited in your private world. No matter what you do, information about you will be collected, but every individual should minimize their exposure landscape the best they can to reduce what can be collected about you.
When your email is on a cloud system especially one like Google Gmail where Google’s primary business is to gather and market your information for their profit, or other similar corporations like yahoo, aol, Hotmail etc.; your entire email conversation and inbox is indexed. That index is then ran through keyword search terms and your entire conversation is categorized and analyzed. Email conversations can then be email threaded to put together an overall relational picture of everyone you talk to, every person you send an email to, and what you talk about, your likes, dislikes, interests. They can then put together relational facts and market that information.
As long as people understand how indexing and email analytics work, then I am fine with that. Otherwise, like I said, stay off the cloud 😊
