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I hate to be obvious, but you get what you pay for :P I dumped gmail for Exchange and now use Office 365. Reasonable price, great support.
Being condescending with customers may backfire for them
The absolute lack of customer support for Gmail made me switch to Fastmail a couple of years ago. I use my own domain now, so if I ever become unhappy with Fastmail I'm not locked in. Email is so vital to my personal life and my business that it is worth paying 50 bucks a year.
I hate to be obvious, but you get what you pay for :P I dumped gmail for Exchange and now use Office 365. Reasonable price, great support.
The absolute lack of customer support for Gmail made me switch to Fastmail a couple of years ago. I use my own domain now, so if I ever become unhappy with Fastmail I'm not locked in. Email is so vital to my personal life and my business that it is worth paying 50 bucks a year.
Your own domain, plus ABG, is really the way to go. I'm a very happy customer of Fastmail, my preferred ABG.
ABG?
The absolute lack of customer support for Gmail made me switch to Fastmail a couple of years ago. I use my own domain now, so if I ever become unhappy with Fastmail I'm not locked in. Email is so vital to my personal life and my business that it is worth paying 50 bucks a year.
Both Gmail (important and unread) and Google Inbox gives you a birds eye view of important emails. Can fastmail do this?
I could use an ISP (or in my case university) email, but I'll lose access to that in the future when I change ISPs (or graduate).
I could use , but they will probably have the same problem, and unless I'm using one of the other giant services (e.g. outlook) are probably more likely to disappear than Google is to randomly ban me.
I could use a paid provider, but they are probably still more likely to disappear in the future than google is likely to randomly ban me.
Instead I would prepare to mitigate the damage of losing access to your account. Have local copies of emails, don't use two factor authentication with one factor being email.
Last time I saw this on HN it was something like an art professor who'd been storing pictures of cherubs or something and it had tripped Google's child-porn detector. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2810946
I use fastmail.com for electronic mail, and I gladly pay for it. Marvel at the simplicity: you pay for a service, and the provider's incentive is to serve you! This versus the alternative where you use a "service" provided free of cost, and the "provider" makes money by selling data they have harvested from your interactions. You give away your privacy; you have no reason to expect support; you are not actually the c…
Which provider sell your data?
And what's the alternative? I could use an ISP (or in my case university) email, but I'll lose access to that in the future when I change ISPs (or graduate). I could use , but they will probably have the same problem, and unless I'm using one of the other giant services (e.g. outlook) are probably more likely to disappear than Google is to randomly ban me. I could use a paid provider, but they are probably still more…
And what's the alternative? I could use an ISP (or in my case university) email, but I'll lose access to that in the future when I change ISPs (or graduate). I could use , but they will probably have the same problem, and unless I'm using one of the other giant services (e.g. outlook) are probably more likely to disappear than Google is to randomly ban me. I could use a paid provider, but they are probably still more…