1. Don't use GMail - the US government and a bunch of commercial corporations should not be able to read your email and/or mine it for useful information to man

1. Don't use GMail - the US government and a bunch of commercial corporations should not be able to read your email and/or mine it for useful information to manipulate you with. 2. With this kind of frontend, you're just adding more entities which scrutinize your email and your behavior patterns. Oh, and apparently this costs a bunch of money to really use. 3. The appropriate frontend for email services (even GMail) is a FOSS mail client. Here's a list of many of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_email_clients https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_email_clients I use Thunderbird personally, which is ok-ish and somewhat extensible.