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Comment on Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024

Let’s be honest, Gmail, being a Google service, was condemned to have an awful UI which can’t work without loading megabytes of JS into your browser.

The good news are that they still support mail clients, which everyone should be using except for those occasions you’re working from a device you do not own.

The bad news are that Gmail still analyzes your emails in the server side, and uses them to serve you tracking ads and train AI models. So maybe switching providers altogether is a better option for those who have a choice.

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OskarAxolotl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Honestly, I think Gmail’s web client is pretty great. It actually has tons of power user features I found very handy in the past (like support for scripting).

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- _s10e@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I agree. Gmail is great as a desktop client if always open in a browser tab.
  
  Which is probably what they want and what their most loyal users want.
  
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maporita@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Gmail’s UI is awful unless you are coming from the Outlook webmail client … then it’s freaking amazing.

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- AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The default Microsoft mail client I use at work is slower and has less features than the BBS email I used 30 years ago…
  
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- ashley@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  have you seen yahoo yet
  
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  - clegko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Or AOL? Bleh.
    
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mark@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

So maybe switching providers altogether is a better option for those who have a choice

Genuinely curious, how would it not be possible for a person to switch to another provider? Are people really so tied to gmail that they feel it’s impossible to leave?

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- iminahurry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I have had my Gmail account for 20 years (since the days of needed an invite). I have 100s of accounts where I have used the id. It’s just not possible to change my email id everywhere. I imagine this would be the case for many people.
  
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  - OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    We’ve had an identical experience. It’s sad to see the enshitification of GMail.
    
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  - Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The question is if you still actively use those 100s of accounts. Out of all the things i’ve ever signed up with, I maybe only use a dozen of the services at most. Most of the accounts I created during childhood and teenage years on random websites I will never ever touch or think about again, couldn’t care less if I lose them.
    
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    Serif@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I can vouch for myself and say that I do have hundreds of accounts that are tied to my Gmail. Changing my email would be worse than changing my cell number I’ve used for over 20 years lol
    
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  - Askja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Not really gmails fault this tho, this would be true of any mail provider you’d use for this time spand. That has more to do with how userprofiles on the internet works.
    
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- lazyalpaca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think most are tied to gmail because of android, browser sync, oauth logins, long time gmail usage (making it hard to migrate), school/work using Google workspace, competitors are unheard of eg. tutanota/protonmail, most people trust gmail account over others (my friend thought my @pm.me account was a spam account) and mainly because gmail just works.
  
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- sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  In certain companies, people’s corporate email could be through Gmail (or whatever they’ve name their email services for businesses).
  
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- AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  For me Gmail’s killer feature is the spam Blocker. Other email services never get it right, and block to much or to little…
  
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rambaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Gmail is slow as fuck on Firefox. And the design also sucks. Just copy outlook like December email services do.

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