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I'm not sure what the point here is? Aren't they just basically just reporting that Gmail offers a nicer API to read email than IMAP and App Developers have bee
by 0xCMP 8y ago
I'm not sure what the point here is? Aren't they just basically just reporting that Gmail offers a nicer API to read email than IMAP and App Developers have been misusing it (maybe)?
- FreakyT 8y agoYeah, this article is apparently blaming Google for the crime of...having APIs. Everything described here would also be possible with IMAP. The actual news story that this is based on (which, for some reason, is completely ignored by this article), is that there are several third-party mail clients engaging in questionable behavior[1]. This is not limited to Gmail, but any of the services that the apps are compatible with, including such classic standbys as IMAP and POP3. [1] https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/02/third-party-email-apps-reading-user-emails/ https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/02/third-party-email-apps-...
- kbenson 8y agoThe sad thing is that the technically literate might come across as "this is overhyped", because in a way it is (in that it focuses on one company), when the real sentiment is "this is what gets you alarmed now? This problem is rampant all over the place and we've been harping on it for years".