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Gmail

Gmail offers robust spam blocking, undo send, Google Chat for collaboration, Spaces for organizing projects, Google Meet video calls, Smart Reply, threaded conversations, and swift notifications, seamlessly integrating with Google Workspace for a comprehensive email experience.

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  • Free
  • Proprietary

Platforms

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3.3
Fair46 reviews
3203likes
71comments

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Integrations

  1. IFTTT icon  IFTTT
  2. Microsoft Outlook icon  Outlook
  3. Google Workspace icon  Google Workspace
  4. Yahoo! Search icon  Yahoo

Features

  1.  Integrated Search
  2.  Integrated Chat
  3.  Multiple Account support
  4.  Mail Server
  5.  Basic html mode
  6.  Email Organizer
  7.  Custom Backgrounds
  8.  Integrated Spam Protection
  9.  Works Offline
  10.  Threaded Conversations
  11.  Canned responses
  12.  Emoji Text support
  13.  Mail Filtering
  14.  Web-Based
  15.  Unified inbox
  16.  Passkey Support
  17.  Email deliverability
  18.  Suggested replies
  19.  IMAP Support

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  • email-management
  • mailbox-provider
  • free-email-service
  • mailboxes
  • mailbox
  • email-hosting
  • mailbox-providers
  • email-services

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    Very reliable. outlook hasnt even come close in years

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Comment summary: Gmail is praised for its integration, speed, reliability, and accessibility across devices. It is favored by small businesses for its cost-effectiveness and collaboration features. However, privacy concerns are prominent, with criticism about email scanning, data selling, and lack of encryption. Users are divided on Gmail's UI, spam filtering, and Google's privacy policies. While it remains a leading email service, many suggest alternatives like ProtonMail for better privacy.
Top Positive Comment
Phillip Carter
1

Best free email service, easy to access, reliable, fast and most comfortable. Gmail has very thorough malware and virus checking. Gmail offers a one-stop portal for calendaring, file storage, photo hosting, Youtube, blogging, financial advice, and more. 10+ GB of email storage space and 25 MB per email capacity.

[Edited by realphillipcarter, July 15]

Top Negative Comment
John Fastman
38

Gmail (and Google) is "free" because it harvests your private information, scans your emails, contacts, and collates this against your use of YouTube, Chrome, your browsing habits, Google Drive contents, websites you visit and adverts you click... everything... The amount of information collected is massive, creepy and you'll never undo it. If a person followed you around collecting this information you'd think it was the creepiest thing.

Worse still, this information is stored on Google servers, which can be hacked or supboenad. You also have no idea who will own that information in 10 or 20 years time, how it can be used against you or other people it contains information about, or under which legal jurisdiction.

Others who may have never agreed to Gmail/Google's Terms & Conditions (including perhaps for privacy reasons), have the content of their emails scanned if they send stuff to a Gmail address. All of that is also true for Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com/Hotmail and Yahoo! (And some others.)

Want to improve your privacy online? I recommend this as a start.

That's a good start. Then follow the info on www.privacytools.io for further advice.

Ariana

Awesome list. Thanks for sharing! Switched from Google search to Qwant recently, works just as nicely.

For secure emails you could also add Tutanota. The entire mailbox is encrypted, plus it's open source.

John Fastman

Yes, Tutanota is end-to-end encrypted and open source. Better still, they are currently testing the beta version of their new interface, which looks awesome, judging from the screenshots. They also promised a calendar in 2017; I hope they can deliver that and attract even more people away from Gmail.

Natterjack565

Better Privacy is NOT open source --- and is now discontinued.

(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/)

[Edited by Natterjack565, November 08]

tihedomecu

Fastmail seems suspicious, because I don't trust women with coloured hair in a top position in a company. In my experience, they are most likely to be far-left leaning people who contribute to the censorship, and privacy violation when someone doesn't respect their ideologies. If these particular people are not like that, then sorry about that, but I am not sure I can still trust. In animal kingdom this is called , Aposematism, which means the use of a signal and especially a visual signal of conspicuous markings or bright colours by an animal to warn other animals that it is toxic or distasteful.

Natterjack565

@tihedomecu Is that you, Donald?

FuckGoogle

I agree but I still use it. Cant avoid it if I wanna have a youtube account

Jeffes M
0

Very reliable. outlook hasnt even come close in years

Lovie
0

Super easy to access. Love how almost all of the people in this world uses this for easy mailing

Sam Lander
0

Gmail does work well as an email service, integrates well across their various services, makes it easy to log in across the web, and is reliable.

But aside from making it easy to log in across the web, most other large email services does everything Gmail does.

And the ability to log in easily is not something you want with a mail that does not respect your privacy. They are literally using that information to collect large amounts of information about you to profit off of. This also increases the attack surface that can be hacked.

You hear about large data breaches. A lot of those breaches come from marketing firms that purchase this information about you.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/7312296/google-read-gmail-emails-snoop/

Some reasons not to use Gmail (consider using something better like Proton Mail or Infomaniak):

  1. Gmail scans your emails and sells your data.

  2. They do not encrypt your mail. It would be an easy feature for them to do, and it would be very useful considering there are so many people who use Gmail. But they don't care about your privacy. They want to be able to read your messages.

  3. It's the only email service I've ever used that has been hacked (lost my Runescape account).

  4. They comply with government requests, even if they don't necessarily have to. Meanwhile, services with end to end encryption like ProtonMail can't comply. They don't have access to your emails.

  5. Gmail stores your data indefinitely.

  6. The huge amount of third-party access increases the attack surface, making your email less secure.

  7. Targeted ads, from your data. It profits off you by mining information about you, keeping giant logs regarding everything about you they can get their hands on. IP Addresses, locations, credit cards, names, gender, marital status, religion, whatever.

  8. It's not professional. If you are some kind of solo practitioner, seeing a free "gmail" domain makes you look like a cheap amateur.

  9. Because they can read your emails, they can ban you for speech they disagree with.

Glussa
2

It has comfortable design and functionality. Also it's quite fast.

But I, like the most people, use non-corporate mail as a trashcan for verification codes and notifications. So you don't need this functional for which you donate your privacy. Everyone knows that there's no even a grain of privacy or anonymity using Google services.

urbanimp
4

I used to like Gmail until i realized they were scanning all my emails, switched to ProtonMail, never looked back

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What is Gmail?

With Gmail you can: • Automatically block more than 99.9 percent of spam, phishing, malware, and dangerous links from ever reaching your inbox • Undo send, to prevent embarrassing mistakes • Turn on Google Chat to connect, create and collaborate with others • Get more done as a group in Spaces - a dedicated place for organizing people, topics, and projects • Enjoy high quality video calling with Google Meet • Respond to emails quickly with Smart Reply suggestions • Switch between multiple accounts • Get notified of new mail fast, with notification center, badge, and lock screen options • Search your mail faster with instant results, predictions as you type, and spelling suggestions • Organize your mail by labeling, starring, deleting, and reporting spam • Swipe to archive/delete, to quickly clear out your inbox • Read your mail with threaded conversations • Auto-complete contact names as you type from your Google contacts or your phone • Respond to Google Calendar invites right from the app

Gmail is part of Google Workspace, allowing you and your team to easily connect, create, and collaborate. You can: • Connect with coworkers via Google Meet or Google Chat, send an invite in Calendar, add an action to your task list, and more without leaving Gmail • Use suggested actions — like Smart Reply, Smart Compose, grammar suggestions, and nudges — to help you stay on top of work and take care of simple tasks, so you can be more efficient with your time • Stay safe. Our machine learning models block more than 99.9% of spam, phishing, and malware from reaching our users

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