I’ve also been using Gmail since it launched. I support the privacy movement and agree with concerns around their usage of users’ data, but I’m just too far dug into the Google ecosystem and too dependent on that particular email address for all my sign-in stuff where I don’t want to spend the time migrating somewhere else.
I hear ya. I was too but then I slowly moved things out of their ecosystem. A great tip is to get your own domain name and use it with Fastmail for example. Then if you don’t like Fastmail later down the road you can move your email service to protonmail and still use your own domain thereby eliminating the need to change your email address. The only google product I really use these days is photos and maps. It took a while but I’m glad I’m out.
I’ve also been using Gmail since it launched. I support the privacy movement and agree with concerns around their usage of users’ data, but I’m just too far dug into the Google ecosystem and too dependent on that particular email address for all my sign-in stuff where I don’t want to spend the time migrating somewhere else.
I hear ya. I was too but then I slowly moved things out of their ecosystem. A great tip is to get your own domain name and use it with Fastmail for example. Then if you don’t like Fastmail later down the road you can move your email service to protonmail and still use your own domain thereby eliminating the need to change your email address. The only google product I really use these days is photos and maps. It took a while but I’m glad I’m out.
Can you not set up a redirect from Gmail to your new address?