Which other emailer has threads, snooze, and tabs? (need all of those really; hard to move without them) I do hate that I can't just pay for gmail and avoid the crappy ads...
> I do hate that I can't just pay for gmail and avoid the crappy ads
You can. It's $5/month and it's called GSuite. It's their enteprise offering, but don't let that turn you off, it's exactly like Google but with your own domain -- no user minimums.
If you want to transition you can redirect one email to the other (@gmail to @yourdomain, or @yourdomain to @gmail).
GSuite mail doesn't get ads and you get some extra goodies and a ton of control over your data, just as any enterprise would.
Gandi (https://gandi.net/) is an excellent registrar if you need to purchase a domain, but Google will probably also mention you can use Google Domains to purchase one when you buy GSuite. Let me know if you have any questions, I'm always happy to help people move to their own email domain; I think it's a necessity everyone should have.
Part of it is anonymity: I would like to have an alias that may have nothing to do with my name (and having a unique domain would prohibit that). Even for email addresses that have my name, I'd prefer not to stand out. A custom domain is too traceable for my liking (even with whois protection).
Threads have been supported since, well, decades (message-id, In-Reply-To). Most modern mail clients support displaying messages in thread format.
> snooze
I originally missed snoozing, but now I just create a task any time I need to address something, or tag/flag it for follow-up.
> tabs
I'm not sure what this is. Can you explain?
> I do hate that I can't just pay for gmail and avoid the crappy ads
Just shows that google thinks that displaying targetted ads based on the contents of your emails is more valuable than you throwing cash at them. That's terrifying.
As another person mentioned, if you have gmail and visit here, google knows about every purchase you have made, the price you paid, etc: https://myaccount.google.com/purchases
They're not reading your emails, right? How else would they know this much information?
That's not what I said. I'd ask that you reread my comment. Your emails aren't used for advertising purposes. There are a host of features that require varying levels of email analysis (from spam detection to putting flight times on your calendar to reminders that you'll be receiving a package).
None of those things require targeting advertisements based on email content. And that's what isn't happening.
Perhaps not in the email interface itself, but you would be hard pressed to convince anyone that it's not shoved in a machine learning model somewhere.
I mean it's literally explicity in the privacy policy. They always kept email based targeting separate from broader data and stopped using it at all for ad targetting a year or two ago, seemingly because corporate (gsuite) users were concerned that the data might be used anyway or something, I'm not really sure.
I don't think you can get more explicit than "Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change."
>As another person mentioned, your email contents aren't used to target ads
Yea, companies have never lied to users before, right? You're still trusting a company that is notorious for snooping and tracking folks to make a quick buck.
You can. It's $5/month and it's called GSuite. It's their enteprise offering, but don't let that turn you off, it's exactly like Google but with your own domain -- no user minimums.
https://gsuite.google.com/
If you want to transition you can redirect one email to the other (@gmail to @yourdomain, or @yourdomain to @gmail).
GSuite mail doesn't get ads and you get some extra goodies and a ton of control over your data, just as any enterprise would.
Gandi (https://gandi.net/) is an excellent registrar if you need to purchase a domain, but Google will probably also mention you can use Google Domains to purchase one when you buy GSuite. Let me know if you have any questions, I'm always happy to help people move to their own email domain; I think it's a necessity everyone should have.