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'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture::An ex-Googler wrote a 1,500-word letter criticizing the firm and CEO Sundar Pichai's lack of "visionary leadership."

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 133 points 11 months ago (31 children)

LoL no shit. You don't even need to be an employee to figure this out. Even as a customer I feel that way. I'm looking to leave Google altogether.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago (10 children)

I left Google 5-6 years ago. I do occasionally use YouTube, but that’s about it.

It’s surprisingly easy to get used to once you do it.

[–] nephs@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)
[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Protonmail is one of the more popular options.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

This is what I'm planning to do as well.

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Is the Spam Filtering equally as good?

That's the reason I went Gmail back in the day.

I get hundreds of emails a day. All filtered out properly.

[–] tinkeringidiot@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It’s been much better for me, haven’t had an unsolicited e-mail hit my inbox yet.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I get hundreds of emails a day.

Dad? I told you, don't type your email address in every popup and click every email link 🤣

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

When you've been on the Internet for 20 years it is inevitable that your address ends up on an email list, or two. They all share information with each other

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago
[–] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

I’m not the same person but I jumped ship from Gmail to Outlook (when that big rebrand launched a decade ago) and a few years ago to Fastmail.

It doesn’t hold a candle to ProtonMail’s privacy and security but I found it handy since it’s a complete mail, contacts, calendar solution with syncing via standards and a large number of available aliases. And since I pay, I’m the customer.

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Good options exist now, including proton and skiff. Recommend checking out skiff. Everyone knows proton.

Skiff gives you 10GB free. Proton only gives 500MB.

That said we should be paying for email. If you don’t, you wind up with Gmail, where they read and analyze the contents of your email to build a profile on you and serve you ads. Moment I noped out of Gmail was when I realized they were aggregating sales receipts in my inbox and tracking the products I was buying. Wow, when did I ever agree to that? Guess it was time move on.

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