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Why would anyone use this over Proton Mail or the gazillion alternatives if it treats people like shit.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm thinking the mobile users are in the worst spot for this. For desktop all this random spam goes into its own tab that I never look at.

Alas, the spam in my "real" google inbox is all my fault. Shouldn't have gave substack my email address.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 3 points 1 year ago

I'm a mobile user and our Gmail is separated into "Primary emails" which is the stuff we really want to see, and "promotions/ spam" which are all the advertisements. that is what OP took a screenshot of. The second one. I don't know why he's just seeing this for the first time and thinks that it's something new. It's been like this since the birth of gmail.

[–] g1Mm3d4L007 3 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I knew about that this year, so many ads and comparing with other alternatives it's like... lol

[–] buddascrayon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand why there are so many surprised people in this thread. They've been doing this for a pretty long time now. Yahoo has been doing it for even longer.

Unless this is just people being fake surprised as a joke?

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[–] federatingIsTooHard 2 points 1 year ago

honestly, just use a mail client. on Android I use k9. on desktop, thunderbird.

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