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Gmail offers robust spam blocking, undo send, Google Chat for collaboration, Spaces for organizing projects, Google Meet video calls, Smart Reply, threaded conversations, and swift notifications, seamlessly integrating with Google Workspace for a comprehensive email experience.
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You are the product when you use this email service. They will sell all of your information and put all your email with random ads that no one asked for. Proton or Tuta will be a better mail service, and Proton has an alternative to their google drive stuff. It is not worth to sell your soul for a couple of GB that probably you'll never use (I have 1GB of mail and that is more than enough for me, just keep it clean :D )
I like their UI/UX. For me it's the standard and very hard to beat.
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Free, Easy to mail. Calendar and other add-ons are good.
Gmail (and Google) is "free" because it harvests your private information, scans your emails, contacts, and collates this against your use of YouTube, Chrome, your browsing habits, Google Drive contents, websites you visit and adverts you click... everything... The amount of information collected is massive, creepy and you'll never undo it. If a person followed you around collecting this information you'd think it was the creepiest thing.
Worse still, this information is stored on Google servers, which can be hacked or supboenad. You also have no idea who will own that information in 10 or 20 years time, how it can be used against you or other people it contains information about, or under which legal jurisdiction.
Others who may have never agreed to Gmail/Google's Terms & Conditions (including perhaps for privacy reasons), have the content of their emails scanned if they send stuff to a Gmail address. All of that is also true for Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com/Hotmail and Yahoo! (And some others.)
Want to improve your privacy online? I recommend this as a start.
That's a good start. Then follow the info on www.privacytools.io for further advice.
Awesome list. Thanks for sharing! Switched from Google search to Qwant recently, works just as nicely.
For secure emails you could also add Tutanota. The entire mailbox is encrypted, plus it's open source.
Yes, Tutanota is end-to-end encrypted and open source. Better still, they are currently testing the beta version of their new interface, which looks awesome, judging from the screenshots. They also promised a calendar in 2017; I hope they can deliver that and attract even more people away from Gmail.
Better Privacy is NOT open source --- and is now discontinued.
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/)
[Edited by Natterjack565, November 08]
Fastmail seems suspicious, because I don't trust women with coloured hair in a top position in a company. In my experience, they are most likely to be far-left leaning people who contribute to the censorship, and privacy violation when someone doesn't respect their ideologies. If these particular people are not like that, then sorry about that, but I am not sure I can still trust. In animal kingdom this is called , Aposematism, which means the use of a signal and especially a visual signal of conspicuous markings or bright colours by an animal to warn other animals that it is toxic or distasteful.
@tihedomecu Is that you, Donald?
I agree but I still use it. Cant avoid it if I wanna have a youtube account
You are the product when you use this email service. They will sell all of your information and put all your email with random ads that no one asked for. Proton or Tuta will be a better mail service, and Proton has an alternative to their google drive stuff. It is not worth to sell your soul for a couple of GB that probably you'll never use (I have 1GB of mail and that is more than enough for me, just keep it clean :D )
I like their UI/UX. For me it's the standard and very hard to beat.
Very reliable. outlook hasnt even come close in years
Super easy to access. Love how almost all of the people in this world uses this for easy mailing
Gmail does work well as an email service, integrates well across their various services, makes it easy to log in across the web, and is reliable.
But aside from making it easy to log in across the web, most other large email services does everything Gmail does.
And the ability to log in easily is not something you want with a mail that does not respect your privacy. They are literally using that information to collect large amounts of information about you to profit off of. This also increases the attack surface that can be hacked.
You hear about large data breaches. A lot of those breaches come from marketing firms that purchase this information about you.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/7312296/google-read-gmail-emails-snoop/
Some reasons not to use Gmail (consider using something better like Proton Mail or Infomaniak):
Gmail scans your emails and sells your data.
They do not encrypt your mail. It would be an easy feature for them to do, and it would be very useful considering there are so many people who use Gmail. But they don't care about your privacy. They want to be able to read your messages.
It's the only email service I've ever used that has been hacked (lost my Runescape account).
They comply with government requests, even if they don't necessarily have to. Meanwhile, services with end to end encryption like ProtonMail can't comply. They don't have access to your emails.
Gmail stores your data indefinitely.
The huge amount of third-party access increases the attack surface, making your email less secure.
Targeted ads, from your data. It profits off you by mining information about you, keeping giant logs regarding everything about you they can get their hands on. IP Addresses, locations, credit cards, names, gender, marital status, religion, whatever.
It's not professional. If you are some kind of solo practitioner, seeing a free "gmail" domain makes you look like a cheap amateur.
Because they can read your emails, they can ban you for speech they disagree with.