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Survey shows Gmail users would gladly sacrifice features for more privacy (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Most of you said you’d switch to Proton Mail for the privacy, even if it meant giving up some of the convenience of Gmail.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Gmail's only feature that made it compelling was an inbox of 1GB when everyone else was doing 20MB. Oh, and using Ajax to make it slightly more responsive.

None of the other stuff they added matters, especially if you're using a mail client.

[–] lemming 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I also think labels are the right way to organise emails. It was pretty unique at the time, and I think it still isn't common.

And frankly, I like gmail's interface more than Thunderbird's, for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Moving to office, I miss labels. Categories suck and cant be filtered easily.

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