![]() ![]() I use it quite heavily, but luckily I use clasp. None of the stuff I use it for is mission critical, if Google shuts me off tomorrow I can survive. I can keep using the free tier with one of my free accounts. Except for GAS and accessing various APIs. ![]() At work we use GCP heavily of course, but outside work I don’t. Migrating away from Google - a laundry list As it happens my Samsung also died at the same time (second time around - I don’t think I will bother with them any more), so it’s a chance to move to an iPhone. So I will take this chance to migrate away from them. And people with much more knowledge than me think self-hosting email is not longer a realistic option, anyway. I wish I had the time, skills, and inclination to manage my own web server, but I don’t. They don’t need us any more, they know us better than we know ourselves. What a mercantile view of the internet, google! Just because I have a domain name doesn’t mean I am a businessman! Anyway I see their point of view, they already data mined the shit out of our private correspondence. By “small business” they mean anyone with their own domain. More importantly, they want to charge “small businesses” for using the google mail servers. And once logged in, the UI forgets what the original link was and you are just left there. And then of course if you follow the link, out of curiosity more than goodwill, you have to login first. The mail didn’t even tell me which settings exactly are troubling them. And then a link to change my privacy settings. ![]() They sent an email to one of my free accounts which simply said “A quick reminder that showing ads is the primary way we fund our services”. Not only the search engine is losing its edge, but ad revenue is going down. ![]()
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