Anyone else encountering this ??
“Trying to force you to use their webmail webpage and endure their ad content.”
Well, that’s why the service is “free”. You get what you pay for.
They also read all your email.
How do you close a gmail account?
I have a very old one that I haven’t used in years, but I’ve never seen a way to close it out.
Complaining about free email🙄
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Welcome to the 4th decade of the internet.
Try Proton Mail
There are plenty of third party email clients that will work with gmail using OAuth2 instead of transmitting your username/password. Mail on Mac, Outlook, Thunderbird. What OS are you using?
Not out of the blue. They and other email providers have been talking about this for a while. The world is moving away from simple (easily hacked) username and password and diving into Oauth and other multi-factor authentication methods. The deadline was May 30th. Upgrade to a better app. Honestly your app maker should have seen this coming, my company started adding Oauth support in 2019 because Google and MS and others had put this handwriting on the wall already.
Pretty sure the issue is that Google has disabled older, less secure security protocols like TLS 1.1 and older (Transport Later Security). This is not a conspiracy, but an industry wide change. Everything on the web will be dumping it before long. Find a client that uses at least TLS 1.2 or better yet TLS 1.3.
Google is about making money... they are free to mandate you interact with them however they dictate...
They made their map API’s free for a long time as well with reasonable limits, then dropped the free queries very low to force folks to pay...
Google is Kinda of like a drug dealer for IT... get you hooked in for free and once you are in, start making you pay
bkmk
I have 2 emails, one from Comcast and Google forever.
Apparently, Google is blocking some of my Comcast emails sent also to Google.
I still get the Comcast emails but Google blocks some of the Comcast emails from showing in my incoming Gmails.
Comcast says that they are working on this.
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If it’s free, you’re what’s being sold.
The built in windows mail client works just fine.
Millions of users should have kicked Google to the curb long before now.
I avoid Google like the plague if at all possible.
... at least in this planet.
If you use any G**gle product, you're as much as begging for a proctological exam every time you fire up a PC or handheld digital device.