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> it's kind of a shitty move by Google. It's kind of business as usual for Google. Why would anyone expect them to be kind and generous suddenly when they hav
by draugadrotten 6y ago
> it's kind of a shitty move by Google.
It's kind of business as usual for Google. Why would anyone expect them to be kind and generous suddenly when they have consistently for years pulled the rug out underneath previosly-free services. (or killed them off completely https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/ )
gmail subscriptions are next, just wait and see.
- ce4 6y agoWhat do you mean by gmail subs?
- lordnacho 6y agoSounds like he's suggesting that you'll soon be required to pay for it.
- ekianjo 6y agoYou are already paying for it with massive crawling of your personal information.
- oarsinsync 6y agoAre there any events over the last decade that leads to believe either of these are true? 1/ if you're paying with money, you won't have to pay with personal information 2/ if you're paying with personal information, you wont later have to pay some other way as well Monopolies (or near monopolies) like to double-dip. A good example of this is net-neutrality. You already pay to be a customer of your ISP, and for your ISP to provide you with Internet access. Your ISP stands to profit even more if they can charge the rest of the Internet for supplying that access to you.
- Nasrudith 6y agoForget monopolies - the New York Times is a double dipper along with the long standing practice of selling mailing lists when a company goes bankrupt.
- wolco2 6y agoGmail It's the one service easily replaced. If they go this route the internet will be a more decentralized place
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- collinmanderson 6y agoSearch is the one service easily replaced. Took me ~5mins to switch to DuckDuckGo.
- 1_player 6y agoEasy? Good luck replacing all your accounts and contacts using your @gmail.com email. You'll move to another provider but you'll need to keep the old GMail one around for a long time before you're safe deleting it.
- the_other 6y agoPeople you actually want to speak with will learn very quickly when their messages don’t get through. Sure, keep your gmail alive whilst you transition yourself, but don’t leave it hanging around too long. The inertia will kill you.
- sbarre 6y agoSure, you just set up forwarding (oh look, forwarding just became a paid feature in Gmail!) and then respond from your new email, and over time it will fix itself and you won't lose emails..
- 1_player 6y agoDefinitely, the point is you'll have to pay Google whether you want it or not, if they make GMail a premium product. So it's not so easy to leave at all.
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- jrootabega 6y agoThat's probably the one service that will always be "free" since it's such a gold mine of your personal info
- Ekaros 6y agoI wouldn't be entirely sure about gmail... But search is the thing that is essentially free advertising space for them. So it's likely to stay free...
- pcthrowaway 6y agoNeither of these are free services. You are the product
- pizzazzaro 6y agoNah, gmail users are not absolutely next in line. That was hangouts users. But you do have the right idea. Gmail users are in line, waiting for the spyware to no longer have a free-to-use option. And even after becoming customers, they'll still be the product.
- levosmetalo 6y agoI have free grandfathered Google Business Plan, including Gmail, but on my domain. The moment Google decides that I have to pay for it, even if it's 0,01 € per month, I'll be moving to another paid service. Why I didn't do it myself, pure laziness, but starting to charge would be a kick in the right direction.
- coddle-hark 6y agoWhich other free email provider are you considering?
- mac01021 6y agoI switched to Fastmail 2 months ago. It's been painless so far.
- dmoy 6y agoIs fastmail free now?
- bluGill 6y agoNo, you should never entrust your personal data to something free. They keep the customer happy, so if you are not the customer you can't be surprised if they don't keep you happy. I've been on fast mail for 10 years or so. I'm happy.
- sideshowb 6y agoHow does their search and spam filter compare to gmail?
- deadbunny 6y agoNot GP but I've been using FM for about 3 years now. I can probably count the spam that has got through their filter in that time on one hand and the same for the inverse of legitimate mail getting caught in the filter (each time it was admittedly sites on the sketchier side of the net). I can't speak for search as I've probably only searched a couple of times but I found what I was looking for so it's probably fine?