> so I left to where?
It says it right in the post. Custom domain and email host (fastmail). When you use your own domain, you can use whatever host you want and switch if they begin to suck.
Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
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Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#92Please Google let me buy my email and move it to my own service without any restrictions and I will be thankful. I am now in too deep to move away, from my govt licenses to banks to everything else.
Switching away from Gmail isn't possible for me, but I will keep trying, I won't give up but hopefully I would never have to realize how big a mistake this was.
I feel like I might end up on the streets if gmail goes away. Hyperbolic but it's insane how true that feels.
Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#93LinkedIn (the company not the other users) thinks I'm stupid, so I also left it.
I love LinkedIn. Its the world biggest art project, mirroring all the trivialities of our work life and business bigotry right back into our faces in an endless feedback loop. Art, I tell you, its art. Now with AI.
That description would make for a good definition of “anti-art”. Which also describes the output of LLMs.
Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#94Please Google let me buy my email and move it to my own service without any restrictions and I will be thankful. I am now in too deep to move away, from my govt licenses to banks to everything else. Switching away from Gmail isn't possible for me, but I will keep trying, I won't give up but hopefully I would never have to realize how big a mistake this was. I feel like I might end up on the streets if gmail goes away…
Why can’t you migrate? It took me a year to move my business to protonmail. I had to change about 200 accounts but we finally moved. I’m curious what the hard limit is for you.
Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#95While I haven't had this issue with Gmail, I recently got a new computer and the first two weeks for full of moments like this. It's shocking to me how much we've let popups go rampant on everything. Perhaps the worst offender is Windows update, as it won't even let you use your own computer without clicking through 10 screens refusing all sorts of products they are trying to push on you.
I know everyone's tired of hearing this, but this doesn't happen on Linux. I know I know, it's different and a little janky here and there and maybe you have to find a replacement for one or two pieces of software. But like, you don't actually have to put up with this. There is a better way.
Doesn’t happen on mac either, right?
Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#96Related to this, I hate how aggressively Google pushes Gemini and all of the privacy implications involved with that. 1) Lots of features got moved around and there are now many "Write with AI", "Generate image with AI", etc buttons polluting user interfaces even though I don't use them and don't want to use them. 2) Actually, I would use some of these features if I didn't have to do a full opt-in to Smart Features f…
Their AI push is what convinced me to leave gmail and go buy my own domain. I don't want it.
what do you use as your client?
Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#97You can turn off the "smart" features in the settings page for gmail. I did this and find it to be much more usable!
Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#98While Google Workspace for personal use is a sometimes a very painful product, at least it makes it easy to turn many of these useless Gemini features off.
Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#99I've had the setting for AI features turned off in gmail for many years now and am quite happy about it. Using the "dumb" version, there isn't a single feature I've wished existed that might be under those settings. Maybe there are some that would be mildly useful if I'd tried them, but eventually I would get rug pulled by google and have to redo my workflow without them anyway; better not the waste the time to begin with.
Along with the author I also have zero doubt google maliciously disables non-GenAI features under that toggle to coerce people into enabling the slop features as well. Google being google, I fully expect them to remove that option entirely in the future, forcing all users to wade through useless slop. That'll be the impetus for me to finally get off of gmail once and for all.
Re: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
#100Sorry to say, but good luck, because deliverability would very likely drop after leaving Google Workspace.
(But yes, AI features are annoying and intrusive at times.)