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.

  • primalmotion@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 months ago

    There is nothing safe when it comes from Google, Apple, Facebook or Microslop. You can use them as a medium to pass data you encrypt yourself, but if you rely on their encryption (e2ee + them), where you hold no keys, it’s all only a sham. Some people will tell you signal is better. It’s probably true, until it’s not, since it’s not federated.

    If you need a real secure communication channel, you will have to learn a bit about the tools you need. None of them come from any of these shitshow companies.

    • gog@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      Thnks dude, i use briar for serious convos, but damn to find that conversations shares ur shit with ur recovery email, fuck.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    All data you upload to Google is subject to be searched and processed by them, whether you uploaded it intentionally or not.

    • gog@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      Fuck, i’m a fucking idiot. Do u know any messaging app that uses a server and doesn’t share shit?

      • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • gog@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          2 months ago

          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.caEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            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.