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Google confirms Gmail is “here to stay” amid speculation over plans to scrap the email service::Claims that Google plans to sunset Gmail were a hoax, so there's no need to panic

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Why do I feel like them saying this makes it MORE likely theyre going to shut it down?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That would be insane if they actually scrapped it.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

My "Gmail is here to stay" press release is raising a lot of questions already answered by my press release

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's here to stay....for only $3.99 per month! *

*cost for monthly subscription only. Excludes fees for sending and receiving messages. Chat and others services extra.


Anyone want to take a bet, this is where we will be in 5 years?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Google ditching Gmail would be so many people ditching Google.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

What about my "Gmail is here to stay" tshirt is making you think Gmail isnt here to stay?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Of course it is. e-mail is well established and very widespread for both personal and corporate use, Google would never abandon this service which is actually a great source of collecting personal data from users and non-users and therefore a source of revenue for them

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Recently moved to protonmail. The setup was fairly easy, with proton copying all the mails over and setting up forwarding from gmail. I've started to gradually change accounts over. Decided to subscribe as well, even though could manage without.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If you buy a custom domain then you won't have to worry in the future, you will be able to switch mail provider without changing your email on any service you use

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Google almost killed Gmail for me - I'm on a deprecated google apps free family plan they tried to kill recently. It was going to cost over a hundred dollars a month to move everyone on my personal family domain to a professional plan to keep it, and at the last minute they retreated and kept it free.

But for me that was a warning shot I can't ignore. Way back I ran a Microsoft Exchange server for the family, before that postfix with squirrelmail. But I'm tired of all the tech support that came with it, so some kind of permanent, relatively spam free email option that we call rely on for decades would be welcome.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ProtonMail has a family plan, and they promise to encrypt your emails.

PurelyMail is nice and super cheap, the only downside is that it's run by a single guy.

Zoho is like 10 dollars per year per user, even though it's geared towards companies and not families.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I'm finishing up moving all my accounts to Proton. I don't trust them at all anymore. Late stage capitalism at its finest.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Wait didn't someone on Lemmy just make the fake Google shutting down Gmail image? Did it spread that far or was there already illiterate idiots already thinking that it was on the way out?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Chaotic me wishes they would kill Gmail. The next handful of cool things would surface from the ashes and I could finally cut ties with big G.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

The only reason I'm locked into Google is Gmail. If that goes away, I'll purge everything Google from my life in a heartbeat.

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