: It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse
  • Gsus4@mander.xyz
    2·
    7 months ago

    They wake up every day and try to decide how to lose users. From killing things to enshittifying them.

    • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
      2·
      7 months ago

      To be fair, they’re only talking about being able to fetch other (third party) mail accounts via Gmail. No one in their right mind should be doing this anyway. And only via POP3, IMAP is still supported.

        • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
          2·
          7 months ago

          Google are an advertisement company. Their business model is data mining. It should be an inconvenience for them to build a profile on you. Running your third party email via them is the opposite of that.

          • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Yes just like HTTP, FTP, SMTP, telnet and all the other pre-TLS protocols that we now run over TLS for exactly this reason.

            Google, just like every other modern mail client, supports connecting to POP3 servers over SSL:

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  • fubarx@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    IIRC, POP3 downloaded all emails to local device. If you have more than one device, the first one gets it all and the second or more see nothing.

    IMAP kept the messages on the server so there was one source of truth and multiple devices could access the same emails.

    Most email clients support both. There are probably some people still running old POP3 clients, or they set it up one way and never bothered to change.

    Not sure why gmail would care. Code’s been working for decades. Unless there are security considerations not worth mitigating.