I'm using the same gmail (as recovery email) that i'm using in youtube and instagram. I was talking to someone using conversations about removing ads from smart tv, and when i logged to youtube after, found a vid about it. This was the second time, the first time was instagram, similair thing.
Update: I replaced my recovery email with proton and Big AND, deleted knox matrxi. No more suggestions. I think it was knox matrix.
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hperrin@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 210d
All data you upload to Google is subject to be searched and processed by them, whether you uploaded it intentionally or not.
gog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 210d
Fuck, i'm a fucking idiot. Do u know any messaging app that uses a server and doesn't share shit?
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 210d
Anything that’s fully end-to-end encrypted and trustworthy. So, Signal, iMessage, and ProtonMail (but only to other ProtonMail users) come to mind. WhatsApp and Telegram are supposedly E2EE, but I don’t trust them.
kutt@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 197d
WhatsApp is definitely E2EE, however they can still collect the metadata. For Telegram I think it’s not even encrypted by default.
Edit: sometimes I should just learn to shut up
https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/post/42285905
Atemu@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 209d
PM is automayically E2EE too if the recepient's server supports WKD or has uploaded their pubkey to keys.openpgp.org.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 209d
Ah, ok. That’s good to know. :)
gog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 210d
Yeah but i thought that if I put my gmail as a recovery email in conversations it will be used as a fucking recovery email, not to share messaging infos
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 210d
Correct me if I’m wrong, but Conversations is just a client, right? So if your server or your friend’s server is run by or backed by Google, they have the messages.
XMPP is not end to end encrypted, so whatever server you use, unless you own it, will have access to your messages. If that’s something you’re not comfortable with, you can run your own server or use an E2EE messenger.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 209d
Almost every current XMPP client, including conversations, supports OMEMO E2E encryption by default.
gog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 209d
This happend with OMEMO, for the server just whatever jabber.network got me
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 209d
If OMEMO was on, then Google didn't read your message. Also now you say you weren't using your Google account but a server from jabber.network? How about your interlocutor? If both of you were using an account for a random server on the jabber.network list, then Google wasn't reading your messages, even with OMEMO turned off.
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 209d
Hmm. Ok, then the likelihood Google was monitoring anything is pretty low. Unless they were monitoring your screen or your microphone. Do you have any AI screenshot features enabled?
gog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 210d
Yep true
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 210d
Conversations.
idiotunderground@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 210d
primalmotion@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 210d
gog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 210d
Thnks dude, i use briar for serious convos, but damn to find that conversations shares ur shit with ur recovery email, fuck.
primalmotion@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 210d
Auster@thebrainbin.org · 2 pts · 210d
Iirc, I think it was the Terraria dev that got all Google services blocked from him for a ban in one service and that Google never explained what was the reason? Might've been some other bigger indie dev, but it served to show how, if Google wants, you lose everything for any minor misdemeanor, or if they think you committed any, and good luck with the right to defend yourself from accusations.