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Comment by darkwater

5 months ago

I don't like cynical takes, even on BigCo like Google, but this totally feels like a "someone wants to get a promotion" type of project.

No, there is a real enterprise need for this, for compliance in certain sectors.

This is about the last kind of thing a company or engineer or PM would build just for fun.

This is a feature that will be genuinely used a bunch. Its use gets mandated, in fact.

  • How so? You get an email with a link from a GSuite user, you need to put your, I guess, own mail provider user and password and get redirected to a mini-gmail website where you can see the email sent, that can be blocked for copying or removed by the sender as admins can already do in GSuite?