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Google confirms Gmail is “here to stay” amid speculation over plans to scrap the email service::Claims that Google plans to sunset Gmail were a hoax, so there's no need to panic

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[-] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 39 points 10 months ago

Maybe it would finally force the surprising number of websites out there that don't allow for email changes to change their policies. I recently switched every account I could to a personal domain and I couldn't believe how many just don't allow for it.

[-] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

It's a weird problem actually. There are valid reasons for blacklisting and whitelisting free email providers.

Some sites only allow registrations from private domains. They blacklist all the free email providers, which makes sure that mostly businesses, academics, etc. are signing up for their services, rather than randos who may have little to no value as a user.

However, some sites see the randos as the only valuable users, and sometimes see private domains as a threat since a bad actor could use one to spawn an infinite number of valid email addresses for registering accounts. Free providers make it much harder to create a new address, so they whitelist them.

[-] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

That isn't the problem I have though, the issue was how many websites don't let you change you email address full stop. Never had one reject my custom domain (but some shitty ones do reject email aliases)

[-] tool@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It's likely because they use it as the primary/unique identifier for the account, which is just dumb. It's like they've never heard of a UUID/GUID before.

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