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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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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
Scott Rollins
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Free, Easy to mail. Calendar and other add-ons are good.

Top Negative Comment
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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
Replying to @John Fastman

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.

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
Replying to @John Fastman

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
Replying to @John Fastman

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
Replying to @John Fastman

@tihedomecu Is that you, Donald?

FuckGoogle
Replying to @John Fastman

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

DomIsDazed
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Gmail is useful if you need a reliable and useful webmail provider. If you want something private and consumer first then Gmail isn't for you.

Raposu
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You are the product when you use this email service. They will sell all of your information and put all your email with random ads that no one asked for. Proton or Tuta will be a better mail service, and Proton has an alternative to their google drive stuff. It is not worth to sell your soul for a couple of GB that probably you'll never use (I have 1GB of mail and that is more than enough for me, just keep it clean :D )

Ago Barreto
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I like their UI/UX. For me it's the standard and very hard to beat.

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Jeffes M
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Very reliable. outlook hasnt even come close in years

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

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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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