XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: alice.jones-donotspam@ptd.net   
      
   Arno Welzel wrote in message 56AE784D.7060408@arnowelzel.de:   
      
   > But wait - in  you mentioned that don't   
   > use a permanent Google account but change it frequently - "Then, over   
   > time, periodically I deleted them (once every few months).".   
      
   That's astute of you to notice that discrepancy.   
   It's actually two different things altogether.   
      
   For my phone, I *must* have a Google Play account (which we previously   
   discussed is a requirement). *That* account is the one that I constantly   
   delete and create a new random one periodically. That account knows too   
   much about me and what I do, even though I am probably unique in that   
   I turn off *everything* that I can figure out how to turn off with respect   
   to location services and tracking and syncing, etc.   
      
   But I have a *real* email account, which is Gmail, which, up until   
   extremely recently (within the past few months) allowed me to log in   
   without ever having provided it a phone number.   
      
   I access *that* real (permanent) account mostly on a desktop, but   
   I can also access that real account with K9mail or any MUA on any   
   platform (I just can't use the Gmail app on Android).   
      
   > But when you want to use a pemanent email service at Google - isn't it   
   > much easier to have just *one* Google account for everything? I do since   
   > I also publish Apps and use the web developer tools to check if there is   
   > any issue with my websites and it would be quite cumbersome if I would   
   > have to login with a number of different Google accounts all the time.   
      
   I see no advantage to Google other than they have a nice mail   
   service (which is getting worse lately due to the recent need   
   to give it a phone number).   
      
   > And seriously: If you don't trust Google, then don't use their services.   
   > Or do you encrypt all the e-mail you exchange with others?   
      
   Encryption of email is/was a great idea, since Phillip Zimmerman days,   
   but it's still impractical, because everyone would need to do it. And   
   they don't. So it's not practical.   
      
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