• Nevermore@lemmy.world
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    I would really suggest people to read their privacy policy - it is horrible. Good app but makes no sense for the exchange of privacy it demands.

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      Facebook, Whatsapp, X and Instagram are the top apps - do you think people really care about privacy policy? Not confusing an email client with social media apps but the general mass doesn’t care about privacy policy yet.

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        1 year ago

        Here on Lemmy there’s slightly more privacy-sensitive demographic than your average social media. It was true even back on Reddit and it seems even more true here.

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        Good for the people who use them. I don’t.

        I’ll still speak out against any app with such a heinous privacy policy.

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        If people didn’t care, privacy wouldn’t be a marketing tool and things like “App Tracking Transparency” that Apple added to iOS a while ago wouldn’t have worked so well.

        Also, do you close your door when you go on the toilet, or go around telling everyone your credit card details?

        Things like these don’t come from ignorance of privacy, but rather services are explicitly designed to lock you in and have unbearably long privacy policies and ToS agreements.

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    Why did Google kill inbox? Was it somehow not profitable? Couldn’t cram enough ads into it?

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      Same reason why Google Now was killed. It was too useful for users. You open the app, you get the info you want. In fact, you don’t even need to open the app. That’s the problem, they had no place to insert the ads and make money.

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        1 year ago

        That makes a terrifying amount of sense and I never looked at this issue from the angle you presented. God damn it, fucking capitalism.

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      1 year ago

      Why did google kill [product]?

      Insert anything from the ever-growing google graveyard.

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      I assume it had too small popularity comparing to Gmail, introduced confusion - two mail services, required resources and extra communication between teams. So, some one decide to optimize.

      If I recall correctly, inbox was kind of test/beta product.

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    I tried it then uninstalled when I realized it was just a wrapper.

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      Yeah, that would be great. I haven’t found anything like it sadly.

      There’s a KDE itinerary plugin for Thunderbird but that’s about it, all the rest of the features are missing.

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    A bit too late for that now. Once they killed Inbox I just migrated everything to ProtonMail. Don’t even use my Gmail address anymore.

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    Installed it. Initially thought that it had potential. Then I found that unless you pay 9$ a month, your search results only display messages from the last 90 days. Absolute deal breaker.

  • Anti-Antidote@lemmy.world
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    I’ve been using Shortwave since early 2022, and it’s honestly been an amazing alternative to the Gmail client

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    I ended up switching most of my email usage to Hey and that’s been okay enough. I really miss inbox though.

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    I am settled with Spark, I need my email app to be multi platform and inbox zero.

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      If you’re going to pay, you might as well pay for something like ProtonMail and get an actual product.

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    I’m surprised it wasn’t on Android already. Been using it for a year or so now, and I love it.

    • Fred@lemdro.idOP
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      I’m guessing you are referencing the article mention “Inbox”. Because I promise you, I was a huge fan and was bummed when they killed it.

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    This app feels so sluggish in my Samsung S21 Ultra. I do not know what is the issue.

    I mainly use Aqua Mail Pro.

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      That is because the android app is a wrapper around web app, rather than being fully native app.

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        I really don’t understand companies that do this. They have millions of dollars at their disposal. Build a real app lol

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          Actually pretty much all companies do this in some form or another. Even Gmail and lots of other Google apps use web instead of native for some parts. They just do it well. When a company does it poorly it really shows.