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Given that this is avoidable by using any POP or IMAP client, I wonder how soon they'll close them down. I'm pretty sure it's a matter of "when".
by Nux 13y ago
Given that this is avoidable by using any POP or IMAP client, I wonder how soon they'll close them down.
I'm pretty sure it's a matter of "when".
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- rquirk 13y agoThe basic HTML interface doesn't show this either, or at least I don't have this tab and that's what I use. Nor does the really basic old mobile interface (which works great from the terminal with w3m) -- this one https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=mobile https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=mobile You're right of course, all of these will probably disappear soon :(
- zmmmmm 13y agoI think it's a good benchmark of their real intentions whether they interfere with those at all. At the moment, because any user can bail out to an IMAP or POP client, including 3rd party web services that behave as those, there is a natural limit to how obnoxious Google can be. If they degrade their native web inbox sufficiently, people will switch to alternatives in droves (I already have long ago).
- Nux 13y agoIndeed, we'll know their real intentions once they interfere with those services, however a bad precedent has already been created: their jabber/xmpp service. Anyone with Android phones, what's the default way to check your emails, IMAP? If yes, then there is still some hope. :-)