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lupi
@lupi

you can still have this, until next month, when google takes it away for good. add h/ to the inbox url for https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ and you will, for a few short weeks, live in a better world.


DecayWTF
@DecayWTF

Install Thunderbird and you'll never have to look at whatever horrors Google wants to afflict you with at all


srxl
@srxl

why not move off gmail entirely? there's plenty of other providers out there that don't have a track record of scanning your emails for ad targeting. here's my picks, if you want some recommendations:

"just give me a free email address" - proton

proton was a pretty decent provider for the time i used it. pretty easy to use, and you get enough storage for personal use on a free plan. the one thing that made me move off though was the lack of 3rd-party client support - while proton mail bridge exists, it requires both a paid plan, and it's an extra background service on your system doing ?????? for ?????? reasons. for the average user though, it's likely good enough.

"i can pay a bit, but i want it batteries included" - fastmail

i've not personally used fastmail before, but i've heard many people say good things about it. there's no free plan, but the "standard" plan (US$5/mo, US$50/yr) costs about the same as proton's "mail plus" (€4.99/mo, €47.88/yr) plan, and you get more out of it, so it certainly seems like the winner to me. double the storage, and you get normal IMAP/SMTP support for your 3rd-party clients.

"i'm a techie willing to bring my own domain" - migadu

migadu is currently powering my emails, and i haven't looked back since i started with them. you'll need to bring your own domain name, which involves getting comfortable with configuring DNS records. but if you can, their micro plan (which i'm nowhere near maxing out) provides the cheapest service of the bunch, with both my .me domain and email coming in at US$33.85/yr total. there's almost nothing you can't do with them - as many domains and mailboxes as you want, full 3rd party client support, they've got it all.

switching doesn't have to be an all at once big deal, either - gmail lets you automatically forward emails to another address, so you can still receive emails in your new account while you get your email address updated everywhere.


NireBryce
@NireBryce

(10$/yr before cost of email service that links to it)

fastmail i think walks you through step by step. but that may only be a paid feature, but also it's got a trial i think

the reason you want your own domain and email and whatever, is simple:

if your email provider dies, or does something shitty, you don't have to go and update your email everywhere

you just link the domain to whatever mail service you move to that lets you use custom domains

fastmail also gives you like 10gb of cloud storage as part of its plan, it's what i use to host pictures i hotlink from cohost if i need to post them in a comment


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in reply to @lupi's post:

i learned this by accident when the checker plus extension (which i use to actually get push notifications for receiving emails while a gmail tab isn't open since apparently gmail doesn't do that anymore even when signed into chrome with a gmail account) updated and in the process dumped moo at one step into the html fallback, which i then tragically learned had like six weeks to live. i wish i'd had been able to enjoy it for more time.

in reply to @DecayWTF's post:

it's a desktop email client, made by mozilla. gets all your emails in a nice desktop app instead of a webpage. setup wasn't terribly complicated for gmail accounts last time i checked - worth a try, just to see if it's up your alley or not.

in reply to @NireBryce's post:

The stories about how badly Google can destroy people's lives just by closing their Gmail accounts (which, of course, is an opaque process without appeal) are actually really harrowing when you start thinking about just how tightly email tends to be coupled to our identities.