Disabling those Primary/Promotions/etc. tabs is the first thing I do whenever I setup a new Gmail account.

I just want to see my inbox, I don't trust an AI filter to sort emails for me.

I love PurelyMail, it's cheap and it works well. But it has some downsides:

* it's based in the US

* it's run by a single guy (bus factor = 1)

Not anymore, now it's actually a team of 3 :)

Wow, didn't know that, that's good!

Gmail can guess what you want to say without you having to type a prompt.

well what's the point of even sending the email if gmail can just reply for you

I don't know lol but apparently some people use that function. It doesn't make any sense to me

I agree. I would never host my mail on those new fancy domains which are controlled by a private company. Only use geographic TLDs run by a trustworthy government.

I use a .com.

You can export mails, but only if you're on a paid plan.

Then you can install Proton Mail Bridge (which exposes a fake IMAP server to your machine) and a mail client (e.g. Thunderbird). Then you move all your mail from Proton to your new service by drag-n-dropping inside of your mail client.

I did it in order to move to Mailbox.org (great service), exactly because I don't want to give money to a company run by a Trump supporter.

Also, get ready to receive replies in which they tell you "Ackchyually he's not a trump supporter!!!1"

> You can export mails, but only if you're on a paid plan.

GDPR to the rescue: You have the right to data portability. All UK/EU email providers offer this (and any that don't may need a polite reminder for them to play ball).

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

I thought protonmail supports imap. Or was it discontinued?

There is a local bridge which transparently communicates between Proton’s encrypted servers and offers imap locally. Only on non-mobile OSs afaik. [0]

[0] https://proton.me/mail/bridge

That's exactly what I wrote in my comment above. You need to install Proton Mail Bridge. But it only works if you're on a paid plan.

I like this. I'm just worried that it's going to make it way harder to create new independent small websites, if the webmasters have to check their users' age.

Well no-one said they have to implement it themselves. I'm sure Google and Apple are willing to send a hardware-signed attestation that the device owner is 18+ if required bu the state.

...for now.

Also they're probably trying to prevent lawmakers from coming up with stricter limits. "We're already marking AI videos as AI, no need to change!"

They don't really want to label ads as ads (no advertiser really does...); they're forced by regulations from multiple countries.

Maybe I'm weird, but I believe in the theory that (all else equal) it's good for business to minimize how much your users hate your product/service.

In other words, users dislike the feeling of not knowing whether things are ads. I can't see any real downside to labeling them, so you're better off doing it so you don't drive users away.

There's also the matter of brand reputation. You don't want to make your ads seem like your own or your user's public communications.

Yeah exactly, they could have made their service useful by showing your subscriptions instead. Yet, they decided to enshittify for people who want choices.

Just a small reminder that we aren't wanted ;)

Now I'm not sure if I should believe you or if you're a smart marketer yourself.

Plus, why in the world would you blindly buy ten T-Shirts you don't know twice?

i think they would probably shill for something more achievable than a shirt you can sometimes get once a year at costco, haha

Ha! You can check my comment history, my Costco T-shirt love is genuine. :)

The second time, I was in the store and could tell these were legitimately great.

In the near future our AI assistants will try to scam each other.