• Nevermore@lemmy.worldEnglish
    85·
    11 months ago

    I would really suggest people to read their privacy policy - it is horrible. Good app but makes no sense for the exchange of privacy it demands.

    • callinean@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Facebook, Whatsapp, X and Instagram are the top apps - do you think people really care about privacy policy? Not confusing an email client with social media apps but the general mass doesn’t care about privacy policy yet.

      • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        Here on Lemmy there’s slightly more privacy-sensitive demographic than your average social media. It was true even back on Reddit and it seems even more true here.

      • Nevermore@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Good for the people who use them. I don’t.

        I’ll still speak out against any app with such a heinous privacy policy.

      • rush@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        If people didn’t care, privacy wouldn’t be a marketing tool and things like “App Tracking Transparency” that Apple added to iOS a while ago wouldn’t have worked so well.

        Also, do you close your door when you go on the toilet, or go around telling everyone your credit card details?

        Things like these don’t come from ignorance of privacy, but rather services are explicitly designed to lock you in and have unbearably long privacy policies and ToS agreements.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    11 months ago

    Why did Google kill inbox? Was it somehow not profitable? Couldn’t cram enough ads into it?

    • shashi154263@lemmy.world
      English
      31·
      11 months ago

      Same reason why Google Now was killed. It was too useful for users. You open the app, you get the info you want. In fact, you don’t even need to open the app. That’s the problem, they had no place to insert the ads and make money.

      • MHcharLEE@lemdro.idEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        That makes a terrifying amount of sense and I never looked at this issue from the angle you presented. God damn it, fucking capitalism.

    • Gray@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      11 months ago

      Why did google kill [product]?

      Insert anything from the ever-growing google graveyard.

    • gelberhut@lemdro.idEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      I assume it had too small popularity comparing to Gmail, introduced confusion - two mail services, required resources and extra communication between teams. So, some one decide to optimize.

      If I recall correctly, inbox was kind of test/beta product.

  • Fred@lemdro.idOPEnglish
    23·
    11 months ago

    I tried it then uninstalled when I realized it was just a wrapper.

    • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, that would be great. I haven’t found anything like it sadly.

      There’s a KDE itinerary plugin for Thunderbird but that’s about it, all the rest of the features are missing.

  • ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chatEnglish
    15·
    11 months ago

    A bit too late for that now. Once they killed Inbox I just migrated everything to ProtonMail. Don’t even use my Gmail address anymore.

  • retrieval4558@mander.xyzEnglish
    14·
    11 months ago

    Installed it. Initially thought that it had potential. Then I found that unless you pay 9$ a month, your search results only display messages from the last 90 days. Absolute deal breaker.

  • Anti-Antidote@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    I’ve been using Shortwave since early 2022, and it’s honestly been an amazing alternative to the Gmail client

    • habanhero@lemmy.caEnglish
      17·
      11 months ago

      It was a pretty decent email app developed by Google back in the day. They discontinued it a few years ago and some features made it into the Gmail app, but not all.

    • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      14·
      11 months ago

      Literally second paragraph of the article:

      For context, Google set out to revolutionize how we deal with emails with its alternative Gmail interface Inbox in 2014. The service eschewed the chronological thread-based nature of regular email clients in favor of a to-do style interface, allowing you to reorder, snooze, and bundle emails. Inbox was killed just five years later, and we’ve been left without a proper in-house replacement ever since

    • 520@kbin.social
      2·
      11 months ago

      A popular mail app that was bought developed by Google and, for the most part, became the Gmail app we know today.

      Edit: initially and mistakenly thought that Inbox was an app Google acquired

  • pink@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    I ended up switching most of my email usage to Hey and that’s been okay enough. I really miss inbox though.

    • Polar@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      If you’re going to pay, you might as well pay for something like ProtonMail and get an actual product.

  • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    I’m surprised it wasn’t on Android already. Been using it for a year or so now, and I love it.

    • Fred@lemdro.idOPEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I’m guessing you are referencing the article mention “Inbox”. Because I promise you, I was a huge fan and was bummed when they killed it.