Google Is Eating Our Mail

Re:Google Is Eating Our Mail by bluGill on Friday April 26, 2019 @11:20AM (#19758430)

Free is not possible. Someone needs to pay for email, servers need to be repaired/replaced every few years, the power bill needs to be paid, someone needs to ensure that the latest exploit doesn't compromise the server. You are paying for your email, the only question is how.

I use fastmail because the payment is direct: I give them a few bucks each month.

With free email (gmail) the payment is not direct. They are doing something to get money, but what is unknown.

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Re:Google Is Eating Our Mail by vbezhenar on Friday April 26, 2019 @02:51PM (#19760701)

There are a lot of free services. Sure, they are getting money from someone, but small personal accounts often are free. Like they hook me on free account and then I recommend it or upgrade as I grow or just spread information about it. For example I never paid for DNS hosting. Currently I'm using Cloudflare for free.

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Re:Google Is Eating Our Mail by tomComb on Friday April 26, 2019 @06:36PM (#19762341)

> With free email (gmail) the payment is not direct. They are doing something to get money, but what is unknown.

I guess you mean something uknown and nefarious.

And you are more comfortable with Qihoo 360, the Chinese company that owns Opera/fastmail?

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Re:Google Is Eating Our Mail by nmjenkins on Friday April 26, 2019 @08:05PM (#19762824)

FastMail hasn't been part of Opera for over 5 years now, since well before Qihoo bought most of what was left of Opera: https://fastmail.blog/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-staf...

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Re:Google Is Eating Our Mail by tomComb on Friday April 26, 2019 @08:34PM (#19762960)

Oh, good. Thanks for pointing that out. I used fastmail for many years and am glad to know that it ended up independent.

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