On Fri, May 16, 2014, at 03:44 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 08:57:47PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > > Is used to be such that only the mail.google.com:GX > > cookie was required to access webgmail [...] > > Now within the past many months that has changed > > to include, at minimum, myriad cookies in google.com. (I've > > not tested which are the minimum set). [...] > Certainly. google probably will change > the minimum cookie set. > > Just for mail isn't it better to not use > browser but an email client via SMTP/IMAP: > > http://email.about.com/od/accessinggmail/f/Gmail_SMTP_Settings.htm I haven't used Gmail for any serious email except when there's been no reasonable alternative. (Case in point: I was on the committee for a local charity event and the organizer had taken apparently large gulps of the Google Kool-Aid to the point where the event documents were all on Google Docs/Drive.)
It is worth the extra $20 or so per year to not have Google be able to cross-reference my search history with my email, and better still to be free of Google's stupid irrelevant or sometimes overly relevant ads in my email. It's bad enough when I browse a site and immediately see both Google ads when I browse elsewhere, and then Facebook ads for it when I check in there. -- Shawn K. Quinn [email protected]
