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Use a paid service. I use Fastmail. It baffles me every day, how HN is obsessed with Gmail as if there was no alternative and are willing to trade a minor impro
by WA 10y ago
Use a paid service. I use Fastmail. It baffles me every day, how HN is obsessed with Gmail as if there was no alternative and are willing to trade a minor improvement in comfort over having every email read, analyzed, indexed, profiled and put into the Ad machine. I'm also surprised that so many people use the web client and not a native client with IMAP.
- noja 10y agoWhat are you talking about? HN is full of people pushing Fastmail over Gmail.
- WA 10y agoI'm talking about the number of stories about Gmail and their respective upvotes: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=gmail&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=pastYear&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=gmail&sort=byPopularity&prefix... Gmail is popular on HN, and probably more popular than all other alternatives.
- Semaphor 10y agoI agree with noja, fastmail is pretty popular on HN. Nonetheless, I use it as well and I'm very happy with them. The Android client is sometimes a little weird, but mostly it works and you can always use one of the many IMAP clients if you want. And I prefer their webinterface over google's