...but...I dont want that.
How do I prevent Gmail from doing that to my addres? So, actually, there are some people I dont want contact with...basically...
Thanks, gang
Melissa
xxx

There should be a bell icon upper right that will have settings\gear-icon. Unless it's not google+ butting in, as I assume? There may still be a waiting list for Protonmail but is worth it and you could set gmail to forward to it.

Not that this answers your question, but perhaps consider a (free, as in freedom, and as in "gratis") encrypted e-mail service. Such as Tutanota?

Best regards,
HMW

I don't think a GPL (free, as in freedom) applies for any of these?

I think you are slightly wrong there my friend:
https://tutanota.uservoice.com/knowl...ta-open-source
https://github.com/tutao/tutanota/bl...er/LICENSE.txt

Edit:

I'm now wondering if Protonmail is at lest partially GPLed too? Looks like it.

Umm, thanks for all the feedback...Android requires (required?) a Gmail addres to get going...so, I'm kinda stuck on that...
But, I was thinking (yes, that too happens to me ...) if I dont mail to anyone that I dont know...chances are slim to none that Gmail makes a link, right?
Melissa

google is pretty intrusive (like FB) if you read the fine print... you bought the wrong phone.

Should be able to get to g+ settings from your phone tho?

Yous won't own proprietary, they'd own you.

I have activated Android with a non-google email address but if you're using Android you're sending everything you do to Google anyhow.
The choice is yours but using Google products will send everything you do to them in order that they can advertise more effectively.

GMail addresses are free and you can give them false information, so relatively anonymous. But the GMail app on an Android asks for permission to access your contacts, so that it can help with filling in addressee information, etc. But that also allows Google to cross-reference, and ask if you know, and/or want to add, other addresses from the web. If you want true anonymity, stay off the internet. Android is no different from iOS or any other OS in that regard.

I have android I've rooted it and I disable most of google (you can't disable it all) - particularly their g+, and sync for addresses and diary. I also disable their gps stuff. I don't use the map stuff anyway but if I ever did I can switch it on and off when I'm finished.
I'm sure they're grabbing some info but not much. If I check them online they have no contacts and no diary entries and I only use gmail to receive some less important mail.

On my desktop at home I search with Startpage and ban all google cookies and remove them asap if they force themselves on me. (Please no-one tell me Startpage are just as bad!)

^+1 Some devices can get other OSs like CyanogenMod for example. I put it on a HD Fire from a rummage and do not incorporate google services so no "app store" or whatever g. Then there's F-Droid and .apk sites...

i have been using gmail for like ten years and have not seen that issue

now it might be G+ butting in

i am assuming you have gone through the settings

click on the bell in the upper right in gmail ( or google+ or gdrive)
and then on the gear icon ( upper left in that pop up)
and uncheck g+