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There is no reason to use gmail. Preferably pay for some other service. And if you haven't already, buy your own domain. Being tied to one service is never go
by tjoff 3y ago
There is no reason to use gmail.
Preferably pay for some other service. And if you haven't already, buy your own domain.
Being tied to one service is never good, even if it isn't by google.
- blowski 3y agoIf your employer uses Gmail, there is a reason to use it.
- tjoff 3y agoMaybe, but at least don't do mail in the browser.
- layer8 3y agoIt's also a good reason to choose a different employer.
- JBiserkov 3y agoYeah. That's the first thing I ask during an interview - "What email provider do you use?". If they say"GMail" I just close the Google Meet tab in my Google Chrome mid-sentence. I can tolerate a lot from an employer, but not GMail. /s
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- layer8 3y agoYou are being sarcastic, but whether an employer is self-hosting or is using cloud services (and which ones) is actually an important consideration for me, because it impacts QoL and is an indication of the employer’s values and competences.
- not_your_vase 3y agoAre you implying that GMail itself is a bad service, and you get better email QoL from the local IT folks, who think that Firefox is not compatible with displaying Stackoverflow? The bad things about Google could be listed for weeks without stopping for a coffeebreak, but "GMail is a bad email service" wouldn't be mentioned (if we disregard the web frontend).
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoHow many water, sewer, garbage, and electrical services do you subscribe to at home?
- isoprophlex 3y agoMy toilet only spies on me after I took three hits if acid
- arwineap 3y agoI know this was in jest, but most municipalities are collecting metadata through sewage treatment This is where some of the most reliable COVID data came from
- devjab 3y agoYour toilet actually spies on you quite a lot. Just not you individually, but your city and health officials actively monitor your “output” to keep track of things like disease spreading. Doesn’t just stop there though, your acid usage might well have ticked into some drug monitoring program.
- palata 3y agoSounds better anonymized than any bullshit "we remove your name and IP from your data and call it anonymized", though.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoYeah it's a good thing that there is nothing in our sewer output that could be directly traced back to individual persons like an IPv4 could. /s
- palata 3y agoPlease answer this question: say I give you a hair I found somewhere in the city. How do you proceed to identify who the owner of that hair is? Not theoretically; in practice, right now. Now compare that to an IPv4. Do you get my point?
- corbezzoli 3y ago> There is no reason to use gmail Free service, perfect deliverability, never having to spell the part after "@", great spam filters, not having to "migrate" your address and emails anywhere else. There's a lot of reasons, actually. One might not like Google, but you can't say there's "no reason"
- tjoff 3y agoThere was some implied context in my comment given the HN audience. Gmails spam filters are quite bad, but even worse than that is staggering amount of important emails they classify as spam. So gmails spam filter is only decent if you don't care about email. And if you don't care about email, sure, you can find reasons to tolerate gmail. Why you'd do that, well, that is another question. Search is also particularly bad with gmail.
- palata 3y ago> Free service Nothing is free. You just pay differently. > Perfect deliverability I have never lost an e-mail with my non-GMail accounts. GMail is not the only reliable service out there. > never having to spell the part after "@" Sad to think that this would be the reason for GMail's monopoly, but well... > great spam filters I don't get much spam with alternative services, not sure if there is a formal comparison somewhere? > not having to "migrate" your address and emails anywhere else And not being able to, ever. And once you get out of free space because for some reason your smartphone automatically syncs with Google Drive and you don't know how to remove stuff you don't need (and you certainly don't want to lose that picture you didn't know existed), then you can start paying 2$ a month to get more space and keep your peace of mind. No really, the one reason I see for GMail is that it is well known (no need to think about what server you want) and it is free. The rest is basically lock-in.
- corbezzoli 3y agoSigh. No. I don’t pay. Take my data, it’s there. It’s free. Stop with this nonsense. When you pay your bills do you think they’re not selling your data? Right.