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Re:Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non S... by Scapeghost on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @08:42PM (#21066391)
iCloud mail + the default Apple Mail app has worked fine enough for me for a decade.

What does Gmail offer that you can't get on other services? (honest question)

Gmail's mandatory phone number requirement upon registration and inability to get unique aliases (iCloud allows 3, so you can have 4 addresses per account at a time, and without the "baseaddress+" prefix which self-defeats the point of an alias) turns me off right at the start.

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Re:Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non S... by Marsymars on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @10:41PM (#21067077)
> Gmail's mandatory phone number requirement upon registration

It's not always mandatory. I don't know what the heuristics are, but I've managed to create a couple new Google accounts (non-gmail, for dev purposes) during the past couple weeks without them being tied to a phone number.

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Re:Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non S... by nine_k on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @12:46AM (#21067684)
What I can't seem to get elsewhere: tags.

Folders don't cut it.

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Re:Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non S... by prepend on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @02:24AM (#21068219)
Gmail doesn’t give me tags.
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Re:Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non S... by nine_k on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @10:49AM (#21071307)
They are named "labels".
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Re:Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non S... by prepend on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @02:13PM (#21073509)
Thanks. Sorry, I was wrong. I got gmail and gdrive mixed up.
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Re:Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non S... by techslave on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @10:02PM (#21066842)
> What does Gmail offer that you can't get on other services?

whitespace. precious, precious whitespace

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