>>>Using gmail in outlook as POP3 is an option -
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>I don't fully understand how gmail can detect adultsite.com in another tab. Surely these are supposed to be isolated so hack code can't snoop your online banking activity in another tab. And any rabbit hole for gmail represents an obvious target for hackers, so surely not.

Google harvests your browsing history and uses that for targeted ads and sells it to marketers. As I recall there is some scary wording in the license agreement for Google Chrome.

>I agree using POP or IMAP with ssl prevents browser snooping and is my longstanding preference.

Yep - me too.