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I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath (aftermath.site)

submitted 7 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If it's any comfort I've spent about a year getting away from Gmail and I can report it is in fact doable.

Finding another email service and using a domain of my own with it was the easy part. The hard part was painstakingly replacing my address everywhere I was using it with new addresses.

Way more doable than YouTube, which I don't foresee being replicated any time soon.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You can also forward emails from your old Gmail to your new email as a bridge to ensure you don't miss anything.

[–] brenticus@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

This is how I do it. I may never stop actually having that gmail account in use due to the number of accounts tied to it, but I at least can use other services going forward without losing tons of stuff.

[–] StaySquared@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I would not forward anything from GMail to another email provider. Google is intrusive. They have no reason to know anything about my new email address. But I'm overreacting and that's okay.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 7 months ago

Damn now I want to make a third, super-secret email address that I re-forward to. Darn that blasted nosey goog

[–] beeb@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Just use an alias, it's anyway a good idea to find a provider that lets you create unique aliases for each account.

[–] StaySquared@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Facts. GMail took me about 4 months or so, just incrementally logging in and checking every service and subscription I have attached to GMail, logging into that account and changing the email address to my new email address. It's a tedious task but worth it. Google is far too intrusive, imo.