Comment on Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Glad I never invested into gmail as an email platform. I have gmail only as part of my google accounts.
Comment on Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Glad I never invested into gmail as an email platform. I have gmail only as part of my google accounts.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That‘s the only way to truly get rid of their shenanigans. I started degoogling a while ago. I learned that a faulty spam recognition system at Youtube can ban all your accounts (they know your google alts even when you never linked them) instantly for a comment you posted in a livestream, thinking it‘s spam. That includes your mail accounts and google pay. Just like that. Imagine that, you lose access to your mails, the google app store and your preferred paying method without a warning because you posted the same laughing emote 3 chatters posted before you. It is very dangerous to be too dependent on a single platform so I moved my mail somewhere else. I pretty much only use Youtube regularly now in terms of Google products.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah the only things I have a google account for are YouTube and the play store. And the play store is getting less use now that I have moved to Graphene. So nothing core to my life thankfully. Now if I can get my MS utilization down to that I will be feeling pretty good.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I pretty much only use Microsoft at work so it‘s my employer‘s problem when things go sideways there. But I understand not everyone can make the switch. Too much software and hardware drivers are still pretty much Windows only.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yeah I’m not looking forward to that part either. I’m working on getting rid of all my services first, but that’s next on the list.