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I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You can also forward emails from your old Gmail to your new email as a bridge to ensure you don't miss anything.

[–] brenticus 3 points 6 months ago

This is how I do it. I may never stop actually having that gmail account in use due to the number of accounts tied to it, but I at least can use other services going forward without losing tons of stuff.

[–] StaySquared 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I would not forward anything from GMail to another email provider. Google is intrusive. They have no reason to know anything about my new email address. But I'm overreacting and that's okay.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Damn now I want to make a third, super-secret email address that I re-forward to. Darn that blasted nosey goog

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Just use an alias, it's anyway a good idea to find a provider that lets you create unique aliases for each account.