Google rolled out a new design for Gmail earlier this year, which made it easy to switch between apps like Gmail, Chat, and Meet in one unified location. Now, it is introducing the opt-out experience to a segment of Gmail users.
Starting today, select users will see the new Gmail experience by default, but they will still have the option to revert to classic Gmail via the settings menu. The new Gmail view will also continue to be available for users who want to enable it later via Quick settings.
When enabled, the new navigation menu allows you to easily switch between your inbox, important conversations, and join meetings without having to switch between tabs or open a new window.
We hope this new experience makes it easier for you to stay on top of what’s important and get work done faster in a single, focused location.
We’d like to note that the new experience will vary based on your Google Workspace edition. Specifically, if you only have Gmail, you will continue to have a Gmail-only configuration in the new navigation:
The new Gmail design is available to users with personal Google accounts, as well as to Google Workspace Individual users.
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Why anyone would use gmail when the EULA states that Google and affiliated developers can read your emails is beyond comprehension. Google won’t even let you delete stuff, just archive it last time I used it. Being a search engine user data is their product. Apple’s free iCloud email has no such arrogant EULA terms and seem to be a much safer bet.
Unless you’re using some sort of encryption on your device and then by whomever you send emails to, there’s always going to have to be some element of trust involved, including with Apple’s iCloud.
Pretty much this. If people are that paranoid, just host your own server. A lot more of a pain than most are willing to put up with, but to each their own.
So the reasoning is that there’s always going to be some element of trust involved so why not just fork over all your data to Google and just trust them? Mmkaay.
So the reasoning is that there’s always going to be some element of trust involved so why not just fork over all your data to Google and just trust them? Mmkaay.
Perhaps there is a different level of expectation between a company whose entire business model requires them to harvest and analyze your date and one that, at least superficially, to limit the amount of data they can access.
Google’s entire existence is based on their access to your data. They have a vested interest in not letting you really restrict that access.
After google was repeatedly caught analyzing billions and billions of emails, they promised to pause harvesting email data for ads. They avoided stating how long the pause was (this was a few year back, so likely to have expired) and they very carefully didn’t promise to stop harvesting and analyzing all gmail tragic, but only to pause doing it for ads.
To top it off, they merely had to pinky swear.
Just a minor correction, you can and always have been able to delete emails from within Gmail’s interface.
It’s really only a matter of time before iCloud gets caught with its hands in the cookie jar. Corporations are greedy, whether Apple, Google, or Duck duck go, who was just caught in a small way recently. Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves.
So we should just fork over all our data to Google because one day Apple may get caught with their pants down anyway? Lol
It’s like some people try to fool themselves.
One neighbour might get paid to shiit on your lawn and another might strongly advocate against shiiting on your lawn. Both could theoretically shiit on your lawn, but people like timberwolf will strangely look at them as being equally likely to shiit on his lawn and will therefore defend the neighbour that gets paid to shiit on his lawn as being his preferred neighbour.
It’s really odd logic and very poor ability to reason.