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I doubt even a majority of HN has Facebook accounts and Gmail for email. A lot of us use services like Fastmail, Protonmail for email and simply do not use Fac
by observation 9y ago
I doubt even a majority of HN has Facebook accounts and Gmail for email.
A lot of us use services like Fastmail, Protonmail for email and simply do not use Facebook. Gmail is so bad it's not even usable for me in comparison to how it was several years ago.
Changing your email account is easier than you think, especially if you already use Password Managers like most of HN will be doing. You can redirect email from Gmail to your new email address, and at your new email provider put a footer into your every sent email which states you've switched to this new email address. I advise backing up your email from Gmail using Thunderbird just in case, but personally I've never had to access the backup, it's really much easier than you imagine.
- paradite 9y agoThanks for the thoughtful response. Actually I'm talking about Google account and services in general, not just gmail. Google account also exists as an IAM service for various Google branded products, such as YouTube, and a lot of other external services, which use Google account as the preferred or only authentication method. It is much harder to break those once you are locked in.
- observation 9y agoAgree on Youtube, getting away from it is much harder because the expense of mass data storage causes a natural monopoly to form. I suspect it will ultimately be upended through a deeper change, likely with agent based computation.