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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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This would really be the ultimate fuck you to everyone if they did this. I sort of wish they would so we’d all stop giving them all our personal data.
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.
Next week: “Google scrapping gmail.”
I doubt it. It’s free data, they ain’t getting rid of that.
It’s not free though. Running an email service is not cheap.
Trust me they make way more money by running the service then it costs to run especially considering that everything is now in house. They own their own servers.
It’s absolutely not free like you said though.
It’s free for you. I have absolutely no idea what point you’re trying to make.
100%
exactly my thought.
“They are saying its here to stay, which means people should get their data off it asap”
Exactly what a company about to shut down their email product would say.
They are not going to stop their spying. The email ain’t going no where. Suckers.
Exactly what a plant for a company about to shut down their email product would say.
I subscribe to tuta.com so say what your witty notions purport.
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.
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The amount of insight they get in their
advertising targetscustomers through handling their email must be enormous
I’m starting to worry Lemmy users read the article at a lower rate than redditors.
I have a few internal sources that say that gmail will be sunset slowly because Google finds it needs space for AI work.
My uncle works at Google and he says they’re bringing back Google+
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.
But with the 15kb limit and the pay as you go $5 for 5mph? Basically you pay more per second the fast you go.
That would be the dumbest decision ever. Email is a prime space to be revolutionized by AI.
see if they were even remotely trustworthy or even rational no one would ever even entertain the possibility of Gmail being discontinued. for any other party this would be laughable. with Google it’s plausible.
Google getting rid of gmail would have to be hands down one of the biggest internet shakeups since its inception. Gmail has been the de facto free email service for almost two decades now. They have like a 53% market share of emails in the U.S.
Also the shitstorm it would cause, when you can’t access an account that you used Gmail to sign up.
I’m glad I got my own website years ago…it’s literally just a function email server for me…no bullshit spam and I can have separate emails for stuff that I don’t need to monitor.
OIDC is the future of this, logins tied to an account rather than a service.
Maybe it would finally force the surprising number of websites out there that don’t allow for email changes to change their policies. I recently switched every account I could to a personal domain and I couldn’t believe how many just don’t allow for it.
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That isn’t the problem I have though, the issue was how many websites don’t let you change you email address full stop. Never had one reject my custom domain (but some shitty ones do reject email aliases)
It’s likely because they use it as the primary/unique identifier for the account, which is just dumb. It’s like they’ve never heard of a UUID/GUID before.
What about my “Gmail is here to stay” tshirt is making you think Gmail isnt here to stay?
Why do I feel like them saying this makes it MORE likely theyre going to shut it down?
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?
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
For now.
Sometimes those rumors are spread by the OG to test the waters…
Gmail is the gateway to their entire product portfolio; no way they’d kill it.
Google has been looking for the thing to kill email for a looooooooong time though.
All it takes is one MBA with little foresight in the wrong position - the Gmail team is all expense (server hosting, labor), and no revenue; that’s the “Ads” and “Drive/One/Business” teams.
The MBA. The only graduate degree you can get by attending class 3 days a month.
How some of these MBA programs can be considered a “masters” degree is an insult to people who actually had to spend years on 40-70hour a week graduate programs.
The program cost for the executive MBA class entering in July 2023 was $205,897, which includes tuition, required electronic textbooks, hotel accommodations during immersion weeks and core course sessions in terms 1-3, administrative fees, and most meals during residence periods.
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They are just straight up purchasing a degree at this price point.
Pretty much. There are cheaper alternative, but there are lots of ways to get a “masters” while still being able to hold down a 9 to 5.
No fucking way I could work while doing my masters in interaction design. Only way to way to do that was to take out a student loan because the program required even more commitment than full time undergraduate course work.
Remember. There is no such thing as free. They’re data mining the hell out of your email. You can rest assured that gmail is a revenue generator. Just in ways you don’t see.
This is the answer. Kinda surprised this is buried three comments deep TBH. The emails you receive and how you interact with them is a far better source for profiling than browser history.
Howeeeeverrrr…
You are awfully confident about a company that kills things like a Russian dictator. I think what perhaps you mean is there’s no way they’d kill it now. If they wanted to push users to some different type of platform they would certainly entertain the idea.
