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Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by zetsurin »

Insanity wrote: post #3

Given they accept any input that presumably matches a regex it doesn’t matter which one you choose. But if you are looking for a new email provider and de-Google your life, I’m pretty with ProtonMail and their other offerings. Also moved my 2FA and Password manager to them, alongside their VPN.

proton has some issues that may or may not be issues for you

- https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/proton-mail-fbi-stop-co...

- http://thoughtportal.org/2025/02/26/proton-mail-says-its-pol...

these people seem more problem free so far https://mail.tutanota.com/login

Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by seiferteric »

readme wrote: post #9

I host my own email. I also have a gmail account, that I've had since the beta. I cannot tell you how many times I have encountered a person that asks for my email and then looked at me confused when it didn't end in gmail, outlook, or something, and then ask me for another email, as if only that would be good enough.

I have my own domain and my email ends with a .casa TLD and it not only causes confusion, I have had some websites reject it as invalid.

Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by encom »

Quoting a dead comment:

>I wish we didn't have to use email at all.

Email has big problems, but contemplate the kind of lovecraftian horror the great minds of silicon valley would replace it with today. Imagine the worst parts of Facebook, Electron, Discord, Windows 11, CloudFlare and TikTok. Secured by Denuvo and the CIA and brought to you by Dollar Shave Club and the Chinese Communist Party.

You'd wish you had email back.

Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by jocoda »

That ship has sailed. A far as most are concerned gmail is email. So that is now the reality. Google has successfully, without any resistance, assimilated email and the web.

I run my own mail and I faithfully avoid chrome as much as I can but the ship is long gone over the horizon.

Sad. But so it goes.

Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by bcrl »

I think the difference between Google's DMARC policy for gmail.com and google.com says it all:

  bcrl@home:~/electronics/vrm/lm5017/test-lm5017-isobuck$ host -t txt _dmarc.gmail.com
  _dmarc.gmail.com descriptive text "v=DMARC1; p=none; sp=quarantine; rua=mailto:mailauth-reports@google.com"

  bcrl@home:~/electronics/vrm/lm5017/test-lm5017-isobuck$ host -t txt _dmarc.google.com
  _dmarc.google.com descriptive text "v=DMARC1; p=reject; rua=mailto:mailauth-reports@google.com"

Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by mywacaday »

readme wrote: post #9

I host my own email. I also have a gmail account, that I've had since the beta. I cannot tell you how many times I have encountered a person that asks for my email and then looked at me confused when it didn't end in gmail, outlook, or something, and then ask me for another email, as if only that would be good enough.

I wanted to take a look at Boomi.com but couldn't sign up with gmail, turned on email forwarding for a parked domain to get past it. Stupid behaviour if you are trying to sell a product.

Re: Don't Use a gmail.com Address

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Post by llm_nerd »

altmanaltman wrote: post #14

"Blog flooded in spam" but it has less than 50 comments on all posts generally? Or is it assuming they are deleting or blocking the supposed flood of spam comments that is unbearable enough to block gmail?

Random little sites that allow and auto-publish user submissions have gotten targeted with spambots for decades. And I mean in the AI era, using an LLM to generate even more capable spambots for every site is super doable.

This silly submission front-paged purely because of the title, and loads of lazy HNers who just upvote based on the title, not realizing this basically has nothing to do with gmail.

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