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Ideally you'd see the government force a split up Youtube, Cloud, Search, and their Ad Exchange into separate companies.
Having your own email/domain isn’t about privacy. Email has become essentially the key to almost everything in modern life. If I lose access to my email I lose access to basically everything I own and it would be a massive hassle to switch emails. Banks, schools, apps, etc. Often times these services won’t even let you change to a new email if you don’t have access to an existing one. Some use email as 2factor. It’s…
Most email is automated, and Google is not a popular provider for that, but Google has a huge percentage of human generated emails.
google/gmail is also one of the principal agents which declares by fiat "your own domain self-run mail is spam because I think its spam" which then propagates to other mail providers. SPF/DKIM no matter: if they decide it's spammy, un-doing this decision is appeal to a star chamber you cannot interact with directly.
By what mechanism do you believe this information "propagates" to other mail operators?
Another effect here is volume. That's non communicating between the big players but would inevitably lead to similar outcomes if they rank domains by volume/score weights.
Hosting a small mail domain in Google is a good way not to get marked bad it seems. Postini filtering on your gsuite user side is an added bonus. I've yet to withdraw a domain from gsuite so I don't know how long it stays "acceptable" But I do know Gmail is one of the principal "not an acceptable sender" paths. As to how that flows or informs o365 or any other player, I may be making a bridge too far.
Having your own email/domain isn’t about privacy. Email has become essentially the key to almost everything in modern life. If I lose access to my email I lose access to basically everything I own and it would be a massive hassle to switch emails. Banks, schools, apps, etc. Often times these services won’t even let you change to a new email if you don’t have access to an existing one. Some use email as 2factor. It’s…
Seriously, reset your email password to something you can never remember and write it down and have someone hold it for a month (don’t tell them what is it, tuck it in an envelope). Let your mind run circles around your fears and you’ll find out how little that email account owns you.
Freezing one credit card will shut off all your frivolous subscriptions (Spotify, Netflix, Prime).
You’ll call your internet provider because you don’t want that cut off.
You’ll call your bank, brokerage.
You’ll remember your bosses contact info, and the one person at work you trust.
You’ll let the most important people know (could be as few as one) that you’re off the grid, in your terms. You’ll memorize their number.
You’ll realize all the people you could care less about, or they about you, if neither of you ever heard from each other again.
Kind of a freeing thing. Then you’ll make a new email, and you’ll never add that much cruft to it ever again.
Having your own email/domain isn’t about privacy. Email has become essentially the key to almost everything in modern life. If I lose access to my email I lose access to basically everything I own and it would be a massive hassle to switch emails. Banks, schools, apps, etc. Often times these services won’t even let you change to a new email if you don’t have access to an existing one. Some use email as 2factor. It’s…
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Are you offering to pay for them to host their own streaming solution and volunteering to handle technical support for users who have trouble with it? This gotcha-game is tiring. People don't have to like Amazon to realize that they and YouTube are the only practical game in town for free live streaming.
Well, I have been a donor for a long time, so yes, technically I am paying them. And your second statement is false; other orgs have successfully had online gatherings on BBB, for example.
1:M live streaming is very, very difficult to get right--it's is why video providers can charge so much for private video in the first place.
For me, owning my own email domain is far more about control than privacy. I currently use some MX and SMTP trickery to forward all of my email to Gmail, effectively using Gmail as my 'email client' - but because the domain is mine, I can change that without too much headache, unlike if I were just using an @gmail.com address.
You don’t own a domain name you rent it. If you ever forget to renew it or you are unable to renew it for some reason then it becomes available for anyone else to register. At that point the new owner can receive all your email and potentially access any accounts which use that email as 2FA. I’m not saying you should never do this but it’s not a silver bullet.
That was so shitty coming back round to reality and everything broken. Still upset about it. To this day I have no idea why the card didn't pay as always.
I'm actually surprised that the Government Departments do not have a service that takes care of these! They will fine Google but almost all of the government email IDs are Gmail.
I was one of those that distributed hundreds if not thousands of Gmail invites when it started. However, since 2010-ish, I left Gmail to be just for Newsletters, and the ones that I'm not serious about. I'm always reminded that a day will come when I will just have no access, lock out and be done with it.
I had used my name's domain and had used the web hosting provided email service and I felt nice using the likes of `webmaster@brajeshwar.com` (early 2000s). Then I got a shorter domain with our family domain and is, now, powered by Google Workspace (with a plan to move to the competitors soon before the yearly plan expires). I had so many domains under the Google Suite free version since its beta. I did upgraded my primary domain to the paid version, when I had few mail delivery issues so I can talk to a person and that was also the time I realize I cannot go back. That was almost/about 10 years ago.
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DebConf videos are mirrored to YouTube as well: https://www.youtube.com/c/DebConfVideos I've never watched it live because discovering the DebConf streams is extremely difficult. I've primarily watched the videos from YouTube.
Hmm, my memory tells me there was just a web page you could visit to watch them, plus links if you wanted to watch in an external media player. Post-conference you can look through the schedule to watch individual talks.