Gregory's ServerThe bummer is that this probably portends similar moves on its other zero-payment products, eventually.
I won't mind de-Google-ifying most things, but I'm not enjoying thinking about replacing Gmail.
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 Well yeah, they keep them free, but will change the terms and conditions so that they can exploit our personal information more and more. I'm pretty sure the number of ads they insert between actual emails had increased recently. (Only in the Promotions tab ..... so far)  ...interesting tidbit, I keep one gmail account on an unprotected browser just for dealing with drain-bamaged websites, frequently local governments or utilities. I hit the browser back button on it when my computer was kind of busy doing other stuff, and what briefly appears in the URL field is "accounts.youtube.com". Yeah, start thinking about your protonmail move now.  @jztusk @dangillmor , yeah true. My private (paid) email is awash with spam and it doesn't sync email addresses with my Android phone unless i'm using it on my phone. All my contacts are Google contacts. Well aint that enshittified?! @jztusk @dangillmor the criticism is mostly valid for browsers that are produced by companies. How about Firefox?  @jztusk @dangillmor fwiw I've found migadu to be a reasonably painless swap as I already have domains I need to keep alive, it's reasonably cheap, and as a bonus I now have a spam-can gmail email to use mostly as a junk bin. The main pain is email search being worse outside of Gmail webmail but it is what it is |
@jztusk @dangillmor They might keep gmail free, because of its value to them as a platform-agnostic social graph.