I stopped using Chrome a while back, but still use Gmail because I'm lazy. Every time I crank open Gmail in another browser, Google whines at me to use Chrome. That grizzling pop-up is now the main reason I don't use Chrome, and it will eventually drive me to migrate away from Gmail. DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

[–] Fern@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Commenting because I'm in the same boat.

Gmail was so handy because it did a good job at filtering the spam and offered customization. But it's doing a worse job at the spam and not a good enough one at customization. Where should I go?

Proton mail? Some similar platform?

I'm terrible at maintaining my email but I check it often enough.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 11 months ago

[–] ComradeWeebelo@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I remember when Chrome released and it was a hot mess performance wise. I haven't used it since and it doesn't seem like I'm missing anything.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 5 points 11 months ago

The last straw for me was about a decade ago when an update completely broke Chrome on my machine. It would open and immediately crash, even after reinstalling. Everything else worked fine, virus scans came back clean and everything, it was only Chrome. I spent the next 2 months playing browser roulette before settling on ol' reliable Firefox once again.

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

We still have maybe two years before they start destrying gmail. I think they're already itching

[–] TheEntity@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

The IMAP support has been more or less broken since the very beginning. Their custom labels make folders behave in a non-standard way and the IMAP itself is terribly slow compared to every single other provider I've used. I used to have dedicated workarounds in my email automation scripts for their weird folder semantics, for even such trivial tasks as actually deleting an email as opposed to merely removing a label from it.

It's already unusable as far as I'm concerned.

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