Stupid question: what the shit do you do with your 15 years of communication history if your email provider falls off a cliff?
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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I'd like them to scrap it actually. So much bullshit you have to do setting up an email server so that GMail would accept your, you know, mail. And there's little demand for alternative services cause everybody has MS and Google mail address (or a dozen).
Spam is a bad thing, yes, spammers have to be fought. But again, I personally would prefer only obviously invalid letters (with spoofed From etc) to be discarded this way. There are local spam filters after all for many local clients, which is how you are supposed to use email.
Oh thank goodness. Ya know I trust Google, when Google speaks it's always true. They're very not evil. And this definitely isn't a fun way to lessen the blow of an announcement that would be so.. displeasing to the masses.
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The amount of insight they get in their ~~advertising targets~~ customers through handling their email must be enormous
I’m starting to worry Lemmy users read the article at a lower rate than redditors.
I have a few internal sources that say that gmail will be sunset slowly because Google finds it needs space for AI work.
That would be the dumbest decision ever. Email is a prime space to be revolutionized by AI.
My uncle works at Google and he says they're bringing back Google+
Oh yeah?
Well my dad's uncle's niece's friend Trish says that Google Reader is coming back.
But maybe don't listen to Trish: she has one tit bigger than the other.
But with the 15kb limit and the pay as you go $5 for 5mph? Basically you pay more per second the fast you go.
It's funny that most comments here are debating this seriously when the article (that apparently nobody bothered to read) clearly says it was a hoax.
Doesn't matter. It's in the aether now that "Google promised Gmail won't go anywhere," so it will definitely be eliminated. People believing a Google product won't be discontinued is the Google product kiss of death.
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Why do I feel like them saying this makes it MORE likely theyre going to shut it down?
My "Gmail is here to stay" press release is raising a lot of questions already answered by my press release
Wait didn't someone on Lemmy just make the fake Google shutting down Gmail image? Did it spread that far or was there already illiterate idiots already thinking that it was on the way out?