At this point, I’m convinced google are actively harmful to the internet.
Trying to centralise as much of the internet and how people interact with it under their control is dangerous and open to widespread abuse - and this is already happening.
See:
YouTube demonetisation
YouTube content ID abuse
Chrome extension changes
Gmail is already completely broken on IMAP unless clients throw in google specific workarounds, and now they’re moving on to break the next layer of email too.
Trying to centralise as much of the internet and how people interact with it under their control is dangerous and open to widespread abuse - and this is already happening.
See:
YouTube demonetisation
YouTube content ID abuse
Chrome extension changes
Gmail is already completely broken on IMAP unless clients throw in google specific workarounds, and now they’re moving on to break the next layer of email too.
Joy.