{"id":3583,"date":"2014-09-12T08:01:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T06:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2014-09-12T08:01:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T06:01:10","slug":"promoting-fastmail-as-a-more-secure-gmail-alternative-and-earning-commissions-for-labourstart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3583","title":{"rendered":"Promoting FastMail as a more secure Gmail alternative &#8211; and earning commissions for LabourStart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastmail.fm\/?STKI=7274533\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3584\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FastMail.png\" alt=\"FastMail\" width=\"120\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FastMail.png 120w, https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/FastMail-100x300.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a>We earn a few dollars every time someone signs up to FastMail using this link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastmail.fm\/?STKI=7274533\">http:\/\/www.fastmail.fm\/?STKI=7274533<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I made the case here why I think people should do this anyway &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=975\"><em>If you care about your privacy and use Gmail, read this<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short quote from that article:<\/p>\n<p><em>Soon, we\u2019ll have Google Glasses and driverless cars and countless other bits of hardware and software that turn our lives into an open book. And that\u2019s a book which is open not to the security services of governments which we, in the end, elect, but to the data mining departments at faceless, privately-owned giant corporations which are accountable to no one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One could withdraw from all this, close down accounts on Facebook and Twitter, get rid of that FitBit, and ditch the mobile phone which can pinpoint exactly where we are at any moment. Or one could take some simple steps that would radically improve one\u2019s privacy without totally disconnecting from everything.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>An easy one is Gmail.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We earn a few dollars every time someone signs up to FastMail using this link:\u00a0http:\/\/www.fastmail.fm\/?STKI=7274533 I made the case here why I think people should do this anyway &#8211; If you care about your privacy and use Gmail, read this. Here&#8217;s a short quote from that article: Soon, we\u2019ll have Google Glasses and driverless cars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3585,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}