• @[email protected]
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    164 hours ago

    Google is like a useful acquaintance who inevitably one day will pull a knife and threaten to cut you. You have to be ready to leave at a moment’s notice.

    • @[email protected]
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      24 hours ago

      Google is like a useful acquaintance who inevitably one day will pull a knife and threaten to cut you

      Umm…that does not sound like an acquaintance

      • naticus
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        13 hours ago

        But are they useful?

  • FiveMacs
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    I’ve been anticipating then begging me for more personal info…I went ahead and created a new paid email with separate provider, migrated all my personal important stuff to that and set it up with my own domain .

    The day they demand more info, I’ll just abandon it. Google is the new Hotmail. Nothing but spam

    • @manualoverride
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      150 minutes ago

      What is the most private way to register a domain? Considering switching from hotmail to a Raspberry PI (postfix) mail server.

    • @[email protected]
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      If Google wants to do so, they can do the same with YouTube.

      There are other email providers out there, but there’s only really one service like YouTube.

      EDIT: Also, there are a lot of documents out there in Google Docs. I mean, if they start requiring a Google account with personal information to view those, they control access to a lot of stuff. And while hosting documents (dunno about editable documents) probably isn’t as hard as hosting video, you can’t just yourself migrate out of that the way you can with email. Need all the people sticking information on Google Docs to also do so.

    • @kn33
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      178 hours ago

      It is charging

  • hendrik
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    48 hours ago

    Had that happen to me without using Grayjay.