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

RoseRose56@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• hansl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The main reason I cannot get rid of GMail entirely is OAuth. There’s no good alternatives.

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  • Tekchip@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive. You can just stop using Gmail and still maintain a Google account to use with oauth providers.

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    • FehrIsFair@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s also the privacy concern as well.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve seen many ignorant comments thinking Gmail is only for email. Google is our company’s identity provider. We’re locked in tight.

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    • internet_peasant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Certain States allow you to attach your Gmail to your literal identity. Allowing quick authorization to sensitive information. It’s interesting in concept, but dystopian in application. At least in the United States. Alphabet and the federal government shaking hands is somewhat unsettling.

      It’d be great if the federal government invested in proprietary capital instead of just dumping money into Private Corp. I guess that’s capitalism for you, but that’s just getting off topic now.

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      • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        While I agree with nearly all of this, have you ever used any proprietary government software? It’s the fucking worst.

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  • lazyalpaca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I usually give login with github/discord/mastodon a priority but if they are not available I just fallback to google

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• Tedrick02@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How much work is it to move to proton from gmail for someone who is only mediocre at technology?

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  • KeepFlying@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The main trouble is the same with switching any email service really.

    1. You need to update your email everywhere…everywhere… this usually means keeping the old email account alive perpetually just in case you find some old account you didn’t (or can’t) update.

    2. You need to back up all your old emails. This is usually easy on things like Outlook or Thunderbird or anything similar.

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    • Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Use an email alias service and you’ll never need to change your email address on sites again in the future. You can change to a new mailbox provider in the future and update all your aliases to point to your new email address within a minute.

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      • aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        so mail forwarding?

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      • KeepFlying@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s a great solution but still takes a bit to switch to initially. I’m just talking about the switchover, after that using an alias service or having your email on your own domain helps save a lot of pain later.

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    • MadBob@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can sympathise with the problem, but are people not writing down somewhere which sevices they’re logged into with Google? I’m sure there’s a bit in the settings where you can see it, now I think.

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      • KeepFlying@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Google lists the sites you use single sign on for, but it doesn’t keep track of how many sites list your Gmail account as your recovery email, or the sites where you had to create an account that uses your email as your username.

        If you’re lucky all those accounts aren’t important, but there’s always a chance you’ll forget one that matters and if youve canceled your Gmail account you’d be screwed if you need to recover that random account.

        So you’re basically stuck keeping Gmail alive for a few years even after you’ve stopped using it just in case you forgot some accounts.

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  • shym3q@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Actually it’s pretty easy. You can import from gmail much more than just mails but also setup fowarding new gmail mails to proton.

    proton.me/support/switch-from-gmail-to-proton

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  • RoseRose56@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know to be true, when I did the change I didn’t many things to transfer. Proton has an article of how to switch, which looks very and no need to export files etc. Also proton has a calendar too. proton.me/support/switch-from-gmail-to-proton

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• h_a_r_u_k_i@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  +1 for Proton Mail. The other day I have switched to Proton (from another mail provider in Germany) and love it so far. I can even use a language to customise my filter [1], how cool that is!

  Not in a million year that I will come back to Gmail.

  [1] proton.me/support/sieve-advanced-custom-filters

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