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darkmatternoodlecow ,

Maybe using a free email account offered by an ad company wasn't such a good idea after all.

grue ,

The only "mildly infuriating" part about this is the stray mark you made on the screenshot.

The other stuff -- the offensive ad and the abuse of Grace Hopper's name -- is more than "mildly."

Lag ,

Double tap. OP is a thoughtful person.

HakFoo ,

I'm more concerned that they reanimated a 30-years-dead Rear Admiral, a founding mother of computer science, and assigned her to help your job search.

B-movie premise: the dead rise and the capitalists realize that they're cheaper labour than the current precariat.

perishthethought ,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precariat

flathead ,

"This has been linked with major mass political developments including the Brexit referendum in the UK, and the presidency of Donald Trump in the US"

Bingo.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Get a paid email service, it costs next to nothing and you retain your privacy. Free services hosted by commercial entities are free for a reason.

Drusas ,

They've been doing that for years now.

DarkThoughts ,

Never seen a single ad in my gmail app.

wander1236 ,
@wander1236@sh.itjust.works avatar

Spark Mail (ignore the "AI Email" thing in the store listing, it's not intrusive or even a major part of the features) is a nice app and works with multiple providers. It even syncs which accounts you have added across devices.

victorz ,

It's... okay. I've been using it a lot, and at first it was claiming to be the spiritual successor to Google Inbox. I feel that, but it's also not that. I can't put my finger on it but it feels like it's evolving too fast and I just want its features to settle down so I know what I'm getting.

willya ,
@willya@lemmyf.uk avatar

So how was the service?

perishthethought ,

Have you ever tried to chat with 1000+ girls at the same time. F*in nightmare.

ivanafterall ,
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

Also it turns out I speak zero of the languages in Asia.

odium ,

I speak two of them and also English which is the lingua franca.

Did not help me talk to a 1000+ at all.

Death_Equity ,

All you need is to use Google translate for "Do you want green card?" and you can have your pick of the litter until a little while after she gets her citizenship. Make sure to get a prenup!

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

Really? I could take it

beirdobaggins ,

I moved my personal email domain to fastmail. I've been very happy with it. I am using the Standard plan at $50 per year.

It's nice being the customer instead of the product.

They can also host static web sites for no additional cost on this plan. So I canceled my web hosting plan too.

Vampiric_Luma ,
@Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca avatar

I'll be checking this out later, thanks for sharing!

red ,
@red@sopuli.xyz avatar

That's a terrible idea, as all your registered accounts on that mail address are now just one minimum wage customer service worker away from getting intercepted by a hacker. Just getting dns redirected is enough.

Edit; Misread. Though you were selfhosting email.

tgxn ,

Fastmail is by far the best email/calendaring service available today. It has everything that Gmail has, plus custom domains, static site hosting. DNS (if you want/need it, I use CloudFlare) and more... All up well worth the money.
Don't self-host email, kiddos!

Eeyore_Syndrome ,
@Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works avatar

I like K-9 (soon to be Thunderbird)

Squeak ,

Change to protonmail and move away from google altogether.

Zachariah ,
@Zachariah@lemmy.world avatar

Or Fastmail

tgxn ,

Exactly, I don't trust a free email service 😂

Veedem ,
@Veedem@lemmy.world avatar

I’m slowly beginning the process of moving to Proton Mail. Staying with the free account for now, but really want to get away from Gmail.

Pandantic OP ,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

Same, for this reason.

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

Absolutely proprietary!

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

Or maybe choose something that isn't such a wolf in sheep's clothing.

darkmatternoodlecow ,

Yeah, they have more than five users, they must be hiding something. It's only logical.

victorz ,

Which are you claiming to be the wolf? It was just a little bit ambiguous for me.

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

Proton Mail is not a service that can be trusted and it is fairly expensive

victorz ,

Why can't it be trusted? Can any service be trusted? I'm not going to host my own email service. 💀

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

They promote proprietary software in the form of JavaScript and they claim encryption and 100% privacy for a protocol that isn't secure or designed to be secure.

victorz ,

What does this claim look like? I mean, I'll bite if all they claim is that they offer 100 % privacy from their end, so they don't do anything with my data. That's good enough for me.

And promoting proprietary software in the form of JavaScript, is that an inherently bad thing apart from being proprietary?

Just curious because you seem rather emphatic about this so I'd like to know more about your thoughts, since I am a potential customer.

centof ,

That's an email client. Do you have a email provider you like that is compatible with it?

pHr34kY ,

Gmail works with it.

But Gmail could technically pump the same ads over IMAP if they wanted to.

RedstoneValley ,

Technically it's not the same, in case of IMAP they would need to literally put spam mails into your account. As opposed to having visual elements in the UI that pretend to be an email. Might not feel like a big difference but actively poisoning the users inbox is pretty bad.

victorz ,

Yeah, while technically possible, I don't see that happening for the exact reason you said. 👍

zweistein ,

Mailbox.org is pretty nice, I've been using it since a few months now, because it's compatible with basically all email clients (unlike protonmail) and they have a very cheap plan too.

gigachad ,

Using it for almost 3 years now, it's great. Together with K9-Mail ofc!

centof ,

Thanks for sharing, I am seriously considering it. I just have a hard time justifying the purchase to myself. I kinda worry that I am just acting on a somewhat emotional fear of being watched.

zweistein ,

Understandable, just give the decision some time and you'll know what's best.

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