• @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    Nothing is free. How would they make money as a company to pay employees and pay hosting bills?

    All these big tech companies are free exactly because they are preditory on users.

    Pay for good email like Fastmail or Proton.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      I understand the sentiment, but email is a necessary part of modern life and not everyone has the luxury of paying for it.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        A lot of things are necessary parts of modern live and you also have to pay for it, a mobile plan for your smartphone for example.

        • Cryptic Fawn
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          11 year ago

          I had a smartphone but not a mobile plan for years. People can get very creative when times are tough.

          • @[email protected]
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            01 year ago

            Don’t get me wrong, I think everybody should have the guarantee for social participation, I’m just saying that Email is no exception. If you did not have a mobile plan for whatever reason, you were just not participating.

            • Cryptic Fawn
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              21 year ago

              Not really; I could do everything everyone else was doing; just not make phone calls or send sms texts. I used wifi to connect to the net and I could still make emergency calls. Im actually considering going back to that to save money, lol.

    • carly™
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      11 year ago

      I mean, Proton, which you just mentioned, also has a free tier, which is just as usable as Gmail is for 90% of people, myself included.