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.
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My "Gmail is here to stay" press release is raising a lot of questions already answered by my press release
It's here to stay....for only $3.99 per month! *
*cost for monthly subscription only. Excludes fees for sending and receiving messages. Chat and others services extra.
Anyone want to take a bet, this is where we will be in 5 years?
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Of course it is. e-mail is well established and very widespread for both personal and corporate use, Google would never abandon this service which is actually a great source of collecting personal data from users and non-users and therefore a source of revenue for them
What about my "Gmail is here to stay" tshirt is making you think Gmail isnt here to stay?
Recently moved to protonmail. The setup was fairly easy, with proton copying all the mails over and setting up forwarding from gmail. I've started to gradually change accounts over. Decided to subscribe as well, even though could manage without.
If you buy a custom domain then you won't have to worry in the future, you will be able to switch mail provider without changing your email on any service you use
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Google almost killed Gmail for me - I'm on a deprecated google apps free family plan they tried to kill recently. It was going to cost over a hundred dollars a month to move everyone on my personal family domain to a professional plan to keep it, and at the last minute they retreated and kept it free.
But for me that was a warning shot I can't ignore. Way back I ran a Microsoft Exchange server for the family, before that postfix with squirrelmail. But I'm tired of all the tech support that came with it, so some kind of permanent, relatively spam free email option that we call rely on for decades would be welcome.
ProtonMail has a family plan, and they promise to encrypt your emails.
PurelyMail is nice and super cheap, the only downside is that it's run by a single guy.
Zoho is like 10 dollars per year per user, even though it's geared towards companies and not families.
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Google ditching Gmail would be so many people ditching Google.
I'm finishing up moving all my accounts to Proton. I don't trust them at all anymore. Late stage capitalism at its finest.
Chaotic me wishes they would kill Gmail. The next handful of cool things would surface from the ashes and I could finally cut ties with big G.
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?
The only reason I'm locked into Google is Gmail. If that goes away, I'll purge everything Google from my life in a heartbeat.