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Eradicating Google from my online life
Halcyon:
--- Quote from: ataradov on November 12, 2023, 10:48:09 pm ---A common complaint that I hear from Workspace users us that it is not at feature parity with the regular free service. I don't expect most people to care, but still something to keep in mind. All the new features (like AI, new UIs) lag in Workspace sometimes by months, sometimes don't appear at all.
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Yep, that's true. However it's not something I've come across personally. Just about all the consumer features are there. I don't think I'm missing out on anything. I'd say the added features you do get in Workspace, outweigh anything that's missing.
zilp:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on November 12, 2023, 10:44:39 pm ---I often hear people wanting to distance themselves from Google because of tracking, advertising etc... etc... But one thing to keep in mind: The free Google services (e.g.: Gmail) are a completely different beast to Google Workspace even though they might look the same on the surface.
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But ... the company is exactly the same!? So, if I mind *tracking* by them, why would I feed all my data into them just because they claim they don't track me?
--- Quote from: Halcyon on November 12, 2023, 10:44:39 pm ---If you love the features you get with Google but want granular control of your information,
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How would I know that I have control of my information?
--- Quote from: Halcyon on November 12, 2023, 10:44:39 pm ---Running your own mail server these days is a whole world of hurt and administration that even some of the more hardcore sysadmins tend to distance themselves from and I have to say,
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That isn't my experience.
--- Quote from: Halcyon on November 12, 2023, 10:44:39 pm ---Google's spam/phishing filtering is probably among the best in the world.
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Is it really? Given that part of the reason why running your own mail server supposedly is so difficult is claimed to be deliverability to gmail, I would think that that indicates a terrible spam filter? I mean, a spam filter that has a high rate of false positives doesn't sound like a good spam filter to me ... and if the way to circumvent it is to become a customer of the company that operates that filter, that smells like anti-competitive behaviour, which would be even more reason to not use them.
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