Watch out for Gmail’s new Confidential Mode

Goggle and Confidential is an Oxymoron.

And as the article shows, Goggle now gets the recipients phone number?

Phishing will be on this like flies on you know what.

Thanks Barney for always posting these interesting articles. Sounds like Confidential mode sets people up for phishing. You wonder what the software people at Google were thinking when they designed confidential mode to operate this way. Following any link in an e-mail can be very risky.
Mark

I'm glad you find it interesting.. here's a trick if you like..

when you go to a site that wants an email to let you into see it, you can create a throw away email at mailcatch.com. Just go there, and you can create anything you like..

I do that so I don't get blasted with crap.. frequently I get the validation email there, I validate and then I can look at the site.

If the sire is a good site, I may use a real email addy... but its always safe to give them a trash email so you don't get blasted!

Thanks for the info as I use gmail as my main email account.

Thanks for the info

There is always be a " gotcha. If you want an e-mail they want your info and you find a way to give without compromise yourself.

Thanks for the update. Glad someone keeps up with this tech stuff.

Thank you, BarneyBadass. Not liking this move by Google.

you can always do like me and create a non-self identifying Gmail account.. go to say a wireless phone place and use one of their phones to do the validation...

Yup... go there; send the request; use their phone to validate the sms msg... n' off y'go!!

WHEEEEE

Where there's a will there's a way!!

What if you need to reset your password and they text that demo phone at a wireless phone store?

It's just a junk email account.. that'a all I've ever used gmail acct's for...

Checking out sites that want an email address for the purpose of validation...

Give:

Fake / incorrect

name
address
birth date
and anything else they want...

I've never used gmail because they read the stuff in your email and splatter you with ads... and with this, frankly I don't care..

I get ads for everything under the sun, bras, viagra, how to get bigger, smaller, prettier, uglier, richer, pay of morgages and the rest... it never ceases to amaze me

Great info. Thanks!