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1. Jan Penfrat (ilumium@eupolicy.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 17:10:30 JST Jan Penfrat

   Who the heck would voluntarily use an email service that puts #surveillance #ads inside email text?

   #Gmail #Google #trackingfreeads

   • Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 17:12:48 JST Aral Balkan

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     @ilumium Have you tried Schnail Mail?

     https://ar.al/notes/schnail-mail-free-real-mail-for-life/

     #schnailMail #gmail #email #surveillanceCapitalism

   • kOoLiNuS (koolinus@toot.community)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 17:37:45 JST kOoLiNuS

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral lovely… but that “better.app” banner makes me a little sad…

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 17:37:45 JST Aral Balkan

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     • kOoLiNuS

     @koolinus Imagine how it makes me feel, I wrote it ;)

     (It was never going to be a forever app. You can’t play cat and mouse with trillion-dollar corporations. What you can do is build alternative infrastructure that can exist forever… or at least be the bridge that moves us in a different direction. Better was always a stopgap that allowed us to keep working on the problem. The Small Web is the bridge.)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 19:15:30 JST Aral Balkan

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     • nellie_m

     @nellie_m You’re very welcome. It’s ten years old and, sadly, still just as relevant.

   • nellie_m (nellie_m@home.social)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 19:15:32 JST nellie_m

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral

     fantastic, thank you so much. Bookmarked for future reference. (I might even set up a signature with a link for every reply to a gmail account…)