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The amount of corpo brainwash in the comments is amazing: "If it's so important... jump through a hoop... and another... and another". Fact remains - Google is

by 0xedd 3y ago

The amount of corpo brainwash in the comments is amazing: "If it's so important... jump through a hoop... and another... and another". Fact remains - Google is unique in its constraint. It gives no added value over competitors. Why accept?

chaoz_ 3y ago
Researching other options will take some time + the deliverability/spam-detection will only get worse. You can check e-mail price of "@gmail" on darkweb and compare it against other providers. For them it's a "threshold" to balance security on scale and they're doing a pretty good job imo.
paddim8 3y ago
Because it's still perfectly reasonable. You simply cannot keep data forever. At some point you have to start removing old unused data. It is just not sustainable. I don't agree with complaining about every single thing corporations do just because they're corporations. Let's complain when they do actually unreasonable things.
- garyNeedsa 3y ago
  Downvotes are weird; reality is not a fractal. Humans die; is the future on the hook for fiat and resource costs to store our cat photos? Religion and longtermer philosophy get thought and agency policing really fast. It’s funny it’s often political traditionalists who seek preservation but refuse to point out the established socio-political norm that obliges humanity to specifically back up dead peoples hard drives.
- hsjqllzlfkf 3y ago
  > You simply cannot keep data forever. I wonder if the data that they're collecting for targeting advertising is also being deleted, because you know you can't keep it forever, right? Oh that's right, of course they're not deleting that. Stop parroting corporate talking points.
  - paddim8 3y ago
    They keep that as long as it's useful. At some point they're going to have to start removing old data there as well, but it's probably mostly text and numbers. This is just pure whataboutism. Explain to me how keeping a ton of data forever is in any way realistic? How would you go about doing that?
dangus 3y ago
They’re not unique. I’ve had plenty of free account providers deactivate me from disuse. Example: Shutterfly Don’t want your account to be deleted? Try using it or getting a paid service. OP wants to use a bunch of gmail accounts for spam forwarding but they should get a proper paid email provider that supports aliasing.

by 0xedd 3y ago

chaoz_ 3y ago

Researching other options will take some time + the deliverability/spam-detection will only get worse. You can check e-mail price of "@gmail" on darkweb and compare it against other providers. For them it's a "threshold" to balance security on scale and they're doing a pretty good job imo.

paddim8 3y ago

Because it's still perfectly reasonable. You simply cannot keep data forever. At some point you have to start removing old unused data. It is just not sustainable. I don't agree with complaining about every single thing corporations do just because they're corporations. Let's complain when they do actually unreasonable things.

garyNeedsa 3y ago
Downvotes are weird; reality is not a fractal. Humans die; is the future on the hook for fiat and resource costs to store our cat photos? Religion and longtermer philosophy get thought and agency policing really fast. It’s funny it’s often political traditionalists who seek preservation but refuse to point out the established socio-political norm that obliges humanity to specifically back up dead peoples hard drives.
hsjqllzlfkf 3y ago
> You simply cannot keep data forever. I wonder if the data that they're collecting for targeting advertising is also being deleted, because you know you can't keep it forever, right? Oh that's right, of course they're not deleting that. Stop parroting corporate talking points.
- paddim8 3y ago
  They keep that as long as it's useful. At some point they're going to have to start removing old data there as well, but it's probably mostly text and numbers. This is just pure whataboutism. Explain to me how keeping a ton of data forever is in any way realistic? How would you go about doing that?

dangus 3y ago

They’re not unique. I’ve had plenty of free account providers deactivate me from disuse. Example: Shutterfly Don’t want your account to be deleted? Try using it or getting a paid service. OP wants to use a bunch of gmail accounts for spam forwarding but they should get a proper paid email provider that supports aliasing.