Comment by superkuh
8 years ago
If it's a problem you should stop using both gmail and Chrome. Don't support companies that are anti-user.
8 years ago
If it's a problem you should stop using both gmail and Chrome. Don't support companies that are anti-user.
My choice to use gmail was made by my employer.
I like my job.
How am I supposed to pass, again?
Are you sure? My employer uses gmail, which I access via Mail.app exclusively. I bet I open the web app maybe once or twice a year, usually by clicking a link in a calendar event.
It's perfectly possibly to use gmail-the-service without using gmail-the-app.
I find Mail.app to have a terrible UX, but I did try it, thanks.
My standing solution is to use one browser to log into big-G services, another to log into FB, and a third for everything else.
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At least you can stop using Chrome, right?
Sounds like you've made your choice. A bad employer at a job you like is more important than software ethics. No need for my input here. But it is your choice.
> A bad employer at a job you like is more important than software ethics.
Using gmail doesn't automatically make them a bad employer. That is incredibly shallow and naive.
This mentality does nothing to help "software ethics" since it forces people to make an extremely unrealistic choice. I wouldn't expect anybody to quit their job over their employer using gmail. You're just pitting more people against the idea of standing up for software ethics by making it about extremes.
It is akin to telling someone, after an oil spill, that they don't care about the planet since they didn't immediately sell their car to quit buying gas.
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This is the cheapest kind of hand-wavy, recriminatory internet "discourse". It's shallow, content-free, and leaves you feeling like the good guy for talking shit about other people's choices, which you've examined on exactly one axis.
I'm glad for you that you've found such a clear moral compass, but the world is, in my experience, rather subtle and complex.
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Advice on a good mail service? I've got one foot in the door of really increasing my privacy online but one is still stuck behind with Google products.
Protonmail or fastmail are both decent.
Or cock.li, countermail.com, scryptmail.com, tutanota.com or vfemail.net.
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Seconding Fastmail if you want a good mail provider. They also provide calandars, contacts, notes and file storage in the package, but obviously can't match the level of integration that Google products have with everything.