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fuck it, do gmail next, force me to find a proper provider
who exactly thinks it's good that things are this ephemeral? what's the point of even using and enjoying and getting invested in something when they constantly pull this shit?
Gmail is too valuable a source of advertising data
In other words, Google won't kill what they can use to harvest your data.
At some point, our descendants will make fun of us for many reasons. One of them will be the way everyone uses Gmail as their primary inbox.
Don’t reply with caveats. You know what I mean.
Proton mail!
Proton's legit
I mean, before Gmail, I had a new email address every 2-3 years. I've had Gmail for what, almost 20 years? That's not what I'd define as "ephemeral."
While I doubt they'll kill Photos any time soon*, I can't recommend self hosting Immich enough**! It has completely "made photos fun again" for me.
Mail, calendar, maps, and Chromecast (mostly for non-Google services) are my main holdouts, and aside from EOL'ing my Chromecast, I think these products are fairly safe.
** Any self hosting community can help you out if you're interested! If you have old hardware sitting around it can be done basically for free. I'm using a free VPS with static IP, WireGuard tunnel to my home server, no DynDNS required. Hostnames are cheap, and Let's Encrypt is awesome and free.