Sadly need to keep one of those as a back up. I use proton as my main, but I've gotten a ton of feedback during my current job hunt that my email is going to spam, so I've had to send emails using my outlook backup.

I hate this world

Yes, but I don't see floods of users switching to better privacy options any time soon

I know I should be. It's a time issue. My gmail address is linked with my entire fuckin life. I guess that's how they trap you..

They don't pay that much tax to where I am from, so if the US wants to do so, have fun.

we need a government with a backbone, one that will tell the companies to fuck off even thought it will hurt all of us.

I don't see how Google would willingly get rid of the goodwill and data of normal users like that. Most people don't know about the sheer site of Googles ad revenue. Also, Google will be the player that shows ads in Google answers, so the moat for ads will become bigger instead of smaller in my mind. Do you have a source on Google ads dying? Last I heard was that it was very profitable for alphabet.

It's all just hype, the big numbers were all future spending so they'll just be dialed down.

There's no scenario in which building data centers will make the company stop existing, they can just sell or rent what ai data centers they have and exit the business worst case.

It wouldn't collapse per se. It would get sold to the next biggest bidder. You'd end up with the likes of Amazon, Microsoft or Musk or something.

well for one, how are you going to recover accounts using your gmail if gmail simply doesn't exist anymore?

answer: you don't.

Sounds like a good excuse.to not need to respond to 80 things. If everyone expects everyone's email to be destroyed, people will get a fucking break finally.

Google is a scourge. So is MS.