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Kosta554 ,
@Kosta554@feddit.nl avatar

That would be insane if they actually scrapped it.

conti473 ,

Not their first rodeo

RGB3x3 ,

The biggest thing holding me to Google is Gmail and photos.

They scrap Gmail and I'm literally out. No more Google accounts, except to use an android.

Google offers very little value to the consumer these days

capital ,

I bought a domain and started using it for all my email last year. It’s the best and I suggest it to everyone.

The combination of your own domain, Fastmail, and Bitwarden is powerful.

You can move email services by changing a few DNS records and Fastmail has an API that Bitwarden hits to create new masked email addresses using your domain so every site gets a different email address. Start getting spam? You know exactly who leaked/sold your info and you can now send that address right to the trash.

Is google photos free?

bitwyze ,

It's free if you stay within the data limit. For anyone interested in self-hosting, immich is getting pretty mature these days.

https://immich.app/

capital ,

Keep in mind the maintainers themselves advise that they make changes often and this should not be the only place you keep your photos.

I just started using it and the facial recognition feature works very well.

I’ve become obsessed with S3 compliant storage lately so I was going to suggest Wasabi, B2, or Storj as a replacement for Google storage.

Wappen ,

Some services only accept whitelisted domains for accounts sadly.

doubletwist ,

I've been using a personal domain for over 20 years. I've never had a service reject my email domain.

capital ,

I haven’t seen any issues with sending to google or Microsoft services.

I think I’ve heard of some admins blocking some of the newer ones like .xyz but they were getting lots of spam from those and knew they wouldn’t be getting business mail from there. Though I don’t know how much longer that will be true.

Scrollone ,

lol considering Google's parent company address is abc.xyz...

asdfasdfasdf ,

You don't need a Google account to use Android.

merthyr1831 ,

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

Greyfoxsolid ,

Why does anyone think Google would shut down Gmail? You'd have to be stupid to think that they would shut down the most used email service on earth, one that is deeply integrated into Google as an ecosystem.

ralakus ,

Google does have a reputation for unnecessary and/or prematurely killing everything it makes so I wouldn't blame people for believing an email that looked like it was from Google saying that Gmail is shutting down in August

Dayroom7485 ,

They shut down services that aren’t profitable. Gmail is highly profitable as it’s an important lever to identify people’s interests, which they use to sell ads at a higher price. They’d have to be stupid to shut it down.

ralakus ,

It'd almost definitely kill Google if they were to kill Gmail. Gmail, YouTube, and Android are pretty much what brings people to use Google services in the first place. I was just referencing the people that panicked when they saw the fake email going around that looked like it was from Google themselves about sunsetting Gmail. Google's reputation didn't help quell the panic which is why they had to come out to the public saying they won't shut down Gmail

Dayroom7485 , (edited )

Well spoken, I mostly agree. Although I wouldn’t go so far and say that shutting down Gmail would kill Google - their search is still pretty popular, too. Their horizontal integration in systems does play a huge role in the search‘s popularity though.

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Google shuts down projects so regularly that I just wouldn't adopt anything new they make because it's not going to be around in 5 years. The core products: search, email, youtube, chrome, android, are decades old now and I wonder if the company can survive shutting down any of them.

ralakus ,

I got bit in the ass by Google when I decided to try using their domain service and they decided to nuke it and sell it to Squarespace. Google domains was so good too. I jumped ship to Porkbun before my domains were completely locked into Squarespace so I managed to get out before it was too late thankfully

GamingChairModel ,

Because there's a viral post going around that they are. They're just squashing this dumb rumor, because despite how dumb it is, it did get some traction.

hperrin ,

Exactly what a company about to shut down their email product would say.

Chakravanti ,

They are not going to stop their spying. The email ain't going no where. Suckers.

hperrin ,

Exactly what a plant for a company about to shut down their email product would say.

Chakravanti ,

I subscribe to tuta.com so say what your witty notions purport.

cley_faye ,

Any of these large business coming out to explicitly say "this will not happen" is concerning.

Scrollone ,

Exactly, it's like if a company said "We're not going to launch a bomb, trust us"... It would totally mean that they're considering launching a bomb

Kellamity ,

I mean, unless there was a hoax that led to widespread belief that they were gonna launch a bomb

Its suspicious if its out of nowhere, but less so if its in response to an existing rumour

asexualchangeling ,

The risk there for a company is: I had heard nothing about this rumor until they started denying it, and Im far from alone

makyo ,

Especially Google who is famous for randomly getting bored of developing and then suddenly cancelling services

detinu ,

I mean this would be insane. Gmail is probably the most used email service in the world, and even though I'm not a Google fanboy, it's also probably the best.

What are people gonna use? Outlook? Fuck that. I only use that piece of trash because of my job.

Zealousideal_Fox900 ,

Same but with education. Fuck the dept. Ed. Qld

SkippingRelax ,

LOL they truly suck

AProfessional ,

gmail has a fine website but email is a commodity service, hundreds of replacements exist and could be used.

retrieval4558 ,

Yeah a random website on a DDG search (ironically) that I just did said that Gmail has 30% of the email marketshare, which I'd definitely believe. It would be a HUGE shakeup and very disruptive if they were to stop it.

GamingChairModel ,

This is in direct response to a misleading viral social media post that claims that Gmail is going to be discontinued, which selectively quotes from a real announcement that Gmail is discontinuing the "basic HTML" browser interface for the service, now that pretty much every device has good performance on the regular browser interface.

Mio ,

Not a problem. I use my Domain so can easily move elsewhere. And I have a backup of all my mail in my email client.

Scrollone ,

This is good advice for anyone considering to move out of Gmail.

Do not just move to another provider, use your own domain and you'll never have to worry about changing your email address everywhere

CallMeButtLove ,

I'm assuming just to host it and send through an SMTP provider? Even in the self hosting community whenever I see someone ask about running their own email server the answer is usually "don't". I think because dealing with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC isn't usually worth the effort.

AProfessional ,

Nearly every email provider (even Google’s paid version) lets you use a custom domain, self-hosting is optional and probably not recommend for most.

Scrollone ,

Yes, I own a domain (it's like 10 dollars/euros per year) and I just point the records to a third party service like ProtonMail or Purely mail (they give you the exact records you need to input in your DNS panel)

Art3sian ,
@Art3sian@lemmy.world avatar

Stupid question: what the shit do you do with your 15 years of communication history if your email provider falls off a cliff?

InFerNo ,

You pop3 your mails or keep a local copy of you imap them. That'll make sure you don't lose any historical communication.

As soon as you start doubting if the service with persist, start switching services over to a new address, logins first.

raspberriesareyummy ,

You pop3 your mails or keep a local copy of you imap them. That’ll make sure you don’t lose any historical communication.

*checks email inbox historical folders: oldest entry 1997-05-07. :)

I messed up my data partition ONCE on a windows upgrade with the most recent backup being over a year old, and I still beat myself up over it.... The only time I actually ever paid a professional data recovery service for private purposes.

targetx ,
@targetx@programming.dev avatar

I would recommend getting a Google Takeout export every year or so. Even before it falls off a cliff it's a good idea to have your own backups. Accounts can get blocked, hacked, etc.

BreakDecks ,

Restore it from the backup that you regularly make rather than relying on a free service to protect it for you for decades?

darkangelazuarl ,

RIP Inbox.

rottingleaf ,

I'd like them to scrap it actually. So much bullshit you have to do setting up an email server so that GMail would accept your, you know, mail. And there's little demand for alternative services cause everybody has MS and Google mail address (or a dozen).

Spam is a bad thing, yes, spammers have to be fought. But again, I personally would prefer only obviously invalid letters (with spoofed From etc) to be discarded this way. There are local spam filters after all for many local clients, which is how you are supposed to use email.

YeetPics ,
@YeetPics@mander.xyz avatar

Oh thank goodness. Ya know I trust Google, when Google speaks it's always true. They're very not evil.
And this definitely isn't a fun way to lessen the blow of an announcement that would be so.. displeasing to the masses.

/$

psud ,

The amount of insight they get in their advertising targets customers through handling their email must be enormous

Nurgle ,

I’m starting to worry Lemmy users read the article at a lower rate than redditors.

werefreeatlast ,

I have a few internal sources that say that gmail will be sunset slowly because Google finds it needs space for AI work.

SugaredScoundrel ,
@SugaredScoundrel@sh.itjust.works avatar

My uncle works at Google and he says they're bringing back Google+

werefreeatlast ,

But with the 15kb limit and the pay as you go $5 for 5mph? Basically you pay more per second the fast you go.

sugartits ,

Oh yeah?

Well my dad's uncle's niece's friend Trish says that Google Reader is coming back.

But maybe don't listen to Trish: she has one tit bigger than the other.

fidodo ,

That would be the dumbest decision ever. Email is a prime space to be revolutionized by AI.

slimarev92 ,

It's funny that most comments here are debating this seriously when the article (that apparently nobody bothered to read) clearly says it was a hoax.

JustZ ,
@JustZ@lemmy.world avatar

Doesn't matter. It's in the aether now that "Google promised Gmail won't go anywhere," so it will definitely be eliminated. People believing a Google product won't be discontinued is the Google product kiss of death.

Dayroom7485 ,

Fully agree. I find it surprising that Google’s public image deteriorated to a point where just mentioning rumors of them shutting down a service gets people upset with them.

MeaanBeaan ,

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

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