Cyprian, I was just thinking today about how guggl is such a fake operation ! There has never been ANY question in my mind that all 4 you mentioned - note the stupid names of most of them ! I don't even like to say the one that begins with "t" because it sounds like I would agree to be reduced down to a 4th grader mentality - are enterprises of the Ill.
Do you believe as I do that the so-called founders of these companies are puppets chosen as a visible face for the operation ?
PS - I believe that the main line emails such as Guggl and Yahoo are information-gathering tools.
I have been complaining quite a bit recently that they ask for one's cell phone number before they will allow you to sign up
for an account ! It's not just invasive like I earlier thought. But seems a conscious tool for vacuuming up a mass of data.
Note that these companies pretend that they are only storing your number in case you get locked out of your account. That is a transparently obvious attempt to play on people's fears.
Perhaps someone is starting a new relationship and is desperate to hear back from the prospective match. That person will never notice how he gave away his privacy by linking his emails to his own phone number when he forks it over to these predators.
Or someone is waiting to hear back from a job interview. Likewise.
These 2 companies pretend that they won't bother you except in emergency. But once that magic phone number is in their hand - who knows what they do with it ???