I get recapthca ALL the time for just not being logged on and deleting all filthy cookies on exit; and not "honoring" 3rd party cookies at all... and I don't care. Best part is that if you live in a country you don't speak the language you get google services in one of the country official languages -- so what you should do and mark is often unclear. The next best part is a road trip through Europe (edit adding "?hl=en" to the url tends to fix the issue in most of google services)
>4. Youtube video includes education hacking tutorials? Demonetized.
History is a far greater offender.
>1. Our ML models see that your emails spam? You're spam.
Years ago, I recall my company hosted gmail started detecting CEO mails as spam... and he was pissed for not getting responses.
Seriously, you shouldn't have to. Your browser sends language preferences, doesn't it? Nope, IP trumps user preferences.
Had the same problem when using my job's VPN with an exit point in Germany (working from France). Very annoying.
Since http1.0[0]... I have wanted to add another header -> "RespectAlHeaders:All-Custom-CrRafted", so the wimpy implementation of ip->country->language is duly removed.
Even if your language is English and your calendar is Gregorian, it will still display news dated in Hijri. No setting or option to change.
Now I've got a PhD on solving "traffic light" and "crosswalk" Captchas as a result.
I started to resent Google for this, except now I think twice before going to a web site that will give me these hurdles, so it ended up helping me to focus on my work. Now I appreciate the extra work.
Default Safari option for 3rd party cookies is: "from visited". Check if you have cookies set, if you do - they know you have been a good boy.
That should not be the suggestion. Many smaller providers encourages the competition necessary for an open network, not a small number of huge providers.
First time setting up an email server was quite a chore as I have no background in email, getting all of the moving parts to play nice required some patience.
My second email server used Mail-in-a-box scripts which I highly recommend. Zero to functioning email server in a few minutes. The slowest part is DNS propagation. Anyone comfortable setting up a domain name and the basic DNS settings that are invloved will have no problem self hosting email. The setup includes web-based client. I use k-9 mail client on my phone.
I find the catch-all email feature very helpful in creating ad-hoc addresses for spammy companies (eg car insurance). I can sign-up with [email protected] and it will direct to [email protected].
I'm not completely de-googled, but I am consciously and gradually reducing my exposure to google, and other large networks.
At the very least it is worth a try.
edit:spelling, added url.
I do see mail going to spam though. It's never bugged me that much.
Please allow me to export notes to txt.
As for a more general download - what would you be looking for? A zip file containing all the notes?
A zip file with all notes in it would be fantastic. I just want to feel like my data is safe from Apple having a bug that wipes it. Read a lot of Catalina horror stories.
IMAP looks promising and might be all I need. Neither Spark or Apple Mail seem to let me export mail as txt but presumably there's a mail client out there that does in which case problem solved. Thank you for point that feature out, should throw it up on:
https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/downloaddata.html#tran...
I use Fastmail scared that my emails will go to spam. But ideally I want to live in a world where my emails hosted on my email server will send like they did 10-20 years ago.
It's sad that it's no longer viable to have your own email server
Even though I have shut down my practice for the near future, I will still need to have information protected for several years to the Health Department's requirements for psychological records.
Email providers who lack this support will have difficulty gaining traction in the health world.
That's already the case.
In my opinion free email services either belong to other big corporations or provide lower quality service than gmail.
Few bucks a month add up and can be considered expensive by many.
I don’t like google and I pay for a different email account. I just wanted to remind that gmail may be hard to quit and that costs are subjective.
I pay around 3$/month for Fastmail, I don't think it's expensive, an email address is the primary communication method everyone uses nowadays and it's useful every day.
We could probably start to divert all gmail and outlook originating mail to the spam folders on our mail servers in retaliation.
I think that's exactly opposite. We need more competition, not forcing a private company to behave in some way that "we" (and who is "we"?) find acceptable.
It's time to break them up.
Google can exist, and people can choose to use Bing, DDG, Fastmail, etc., right?
The problem is that Google is not just Google the search engine, or Google the email provider, or Google the video service, or Google the website analytics engine, or Google the online office suite, or Google the ads syndicate.
Because Google is all of those things, it has accumulated too much market power, to the extent that they are market distorting. Bing and DDG (which is not an independent engine, but collates results) are irrelevant to a company's Internet presence. There is no such thing as SEO for Bing. Whereas Google can make-or-break you.
When Google the ad syndicate and Google the search engine collude (as it were) to place your competitor's ads ahead of your organic search result, a top result even, and to distinguish such ad results as ads only technically, by the narrowest of definitions, this compels you to advertise with Google the ad syndicate. Just as an example.
This behavior is harmful to the market (not to mention to users, but that's a different subject) and it is a given that Google the monopoly^Wsingle entity will continue to make such moves, whack-a-mole style so it's futile to squash any individual behavior even if you could. Ergo the reasonable solution is to break them up.
This ship sailed years ago, though.
Bitch about Google all you want, it's not like they decided this is how the internet should work. Prior to Google, my company integrated with reCaptcha because no other choice existed to reduce automated abuse.
I was surprised/disappointed to see this happen on HN.
too late?
Yeah well, they offer a free service and you use it. They own their network and they can decide what they allow.
It seems you're not getting the point. The problem is not for users of those "awesome" Google services the problem manifests itself for people sending legitimate emails from legitimate email accounts to a Google account.
Google tags those as spam and refuses to deliver them, while always shifting the goal posts and providing sub par support (an number of essentially useless links) to the sender of the email to a Google account.
This happens, btw, also when the sender account never spammed and sent legitimate mails to the Gmail user for years.
So your snarky comment is completely out of line here.
It's not about people mooching free "awesome" Google services for free it's that Google is a rotten net citizen and is behaving like shit to the entire world.
It's funny to me that people in this thread are complaining about Google being large enough to serve as a de-facto authority, when the only way one could solve a "legitimate emails are being blocked" problem is to have a definition of 'legitimate' that would come from... an authority.
Google is dropping the ball but I don't know what the solution would look like that isn't just "Someone else be Google now." ;)
I don't use gmail these days (except as a honeypot out of laziness), but I get plenty of email from google hosted domains. The issue isn't (just) that people want to use these services and want Google to have more reasonable policies, there is also the issue of having to tolerate Google's policies because other people use their services.
Emails from Google servers are notable to me because there is no way to report spam (and the signal to noise ratio from Google is pretty low for my case). Google's opaque approach to email means that deliverability issues become even more tedious to deal with than they should be.
Maybe I’m weird, but I’ve never been in an AMP where I wouldn’t rather go to the actual side and use reader mode.
At start it has mark that search results based on results from yandex engine and crawled results
1. Our ML models see that your emails spam? You're spam.
2. You're using Tor or a VPN? Here's 10 reCaptcha's.
3. Don't use Google Webmaster or use AMPs? Good luck finding your page on the 1st page.
4. Youtube video includes education hacking tutorials? Demonetized.
Obviously some alternatives are moving to Fastmail and using Duck Duck Go, but we need Google to stop this "my way or you don't exist" attitude before they become a huge conglomerate which controls major aspects of many people's lives (which they arguably already do) and leaves everyone (like small companies that don't use Google or just regular people who don't want a Google account) separated from the world they're forming.