Google has updated its privacy policy to allow personal information from Gmail, Google Photos, and Drive to potentially be used for targeted advertising, raising new questions about how the company handles users’ private data.
The change, which took effect on October 16, introduces a significant exception to Google’s previous promise that it would not use content from these services to personalize advertisements.
As first spotted by Android Authority, the updated policy specifically affects users who connect their personal information to Google’s AI-powered services, including Search and Gemini.
Problem is every institution by default expects you to have gmail. If not then you need to have it. This is what fucked up.
No, every institution expects you to have an e-mail. Gmail is just one of the thousands upon thousands of providers.
Nope, ik what i wrote, they want Gmail, any other mail id is not acceptable
You will be surprised.
So surprise us??
Many Government website in my country allow only gmail, yahoo and outlook.
That’s sad. What country?
At this point it’s tempting to tell them Google has banned you.
Can you name one? Email, yes. Gmail though?
It happens on some pages. Doesn’t let you in with “unknown” domains claiming that it’s not a real email
First, he specifically said “every institution by default expects you to have gmail.” Not requires a known domain. So I asked for an example.
Regarding your experience, I’d say that’s still very, very rare. Certainly not “every institution” like OP claimed, and probably not even common large institutions. I’d be interested in an example of even one of those. Rejecting specific temp email domains is certainly something some sites do, but as someone that has a couple unique domains that I’ve used for years, large companies requiring Gmail or rejecting custom domains is not something I’ve experienced thus am curious about a specific example of such claims.
In my country, my school or my brother college. It is like Whatsapp, people just expect you to have specifically that since most people already use Android.
You may think that we can give any other mail but these institutions are maybe dumb to any kind of dofference.
Interesting… what country if you don’t mind my asking?
Sorry won’t say that, hope you don’t mind.