# Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours – copyrighteous

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## What Jamie wrote

I use Fastmail to host my mail, and I wouldn't use Google because like the author here I don't want them to see my email. Obviously if you email people that use Google, they then have the email. The author here actually did the work to figure out how much that was for his email usage.

> The answer is surprisingly large. Despite the fact that I spend hundreds of dollars a year and hours of work to host my own email server, Google has about half of my personal email! Last year, Google delivered 57% of the emails in my inbox that I replied to. They have delivered more than a third of all the email I’ve replied to every year since 2006 and more than half since 2010.

Ugh. Now, even though Google saw that, since I’m not a Gmail user they cannot use it for ads. They would have to somehow match my Google account to my own domain, which may not be that hard. But then the blockers I run protect me from being monitored and augmenting that email data.

But keeping data out of big services like Google is really hard.

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