There's no reason we have to interact with gmail at all. The time has come for a lightweight, client-side layer on top of email+pgp providing a new social network.
The fact that so many people who otherwise care about things like privacy, freedom, and competition all flocked to gmail anyway always seemed completely bananas to me. It's like a case study in how principle (or even long term self-interest) always loses to convenience.
In order to avoid interacting with it at all, you'd have to check the MX records of the domains behind the e-mail addresses of every one of your contacts, and then stop e-mailing the ones who use gmail.
They've gone out of their way to become impossible to reasonably avoid.
Regulatory action is the only thing that will stop them from completely destroying the concept of decentralization on the internet.
core-questions|7 years ago
notacoward|7 years ago
908087|7 years ago
They've gone out of their way to become impossible to reasonably avoid.
Regulatory action is the only thing that will stop them from completely destroying the concept of decentralization on the internet.