[atomicnumber3]

Honest question: what do you do with email that's so personal? Disclaimer that I don't like Google mining email data, I value privacy and don't want to dismiss it.

But I'm genuinely curious what you do over email that you feel so strongly about. For me, email is basically just a notification feed for me buying shit off Amazon (which the biggest person interested in selling me shit already knows about) and me occasionally having to complain to a customer service inbox.

All personal stuff is iMessage and signal, or secure things like docusign (for employment stuff).

Honestly if I was going to make a privacy related move, it would be to move to my own email domain but still hosted on gsuite.

[bpbp-mango]

Personally I was scared my account might be closed and I would have no recourse as I wasn't a paying customer. Years ago there were stories here of people having all their google accounts closed and being unable to even contact a human at google to check why.

[nashashmi]

If your purpose of email is simply commercial emails then I may somewhat agree that paying for emails may not be a worthwhile investment.

[arrakeen]

someday when iMessage and Signal are long gone, you're going to want to recall a funny conversation with friends or a message from a lover that you STILL keep thinking about after all these years. when that happens, you'll probably wish those things happened on a platform that makes it easy to save for as long as you want