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The Verge reports that Google will remove Gmail's Basic HTML view effective January 2024.
Though the vast majority of people use the Standard view on their PCs without question, the HTML version of Gmail has its perks. The stripped-down Gmail experience loads quickly, and users can access it even on older machines or with much slower connections.
The change appears to have been announced around September 19th in a Google support article, and users of the Basic HTML view were shown warnings that it will be discontinued, after which time they will be switched to the current standard view.
The removal of Gmail's basic HTML view is the latest in a long line of products, features, services, and more to be admitted to the Google graveyard. The company has also recently buried its Pixel Pass phone upgrade program, Google Currents, and Nest Secure.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2023, @04:29PM (3 children)
At least when it comes to email, I gave up on free. I pay something like $80 for 3 years of email from a service that also provides storage and a web site if I ever care to use it. No ads. No BS. There's always the possibility of stuff like this; but it's less likely since you're the customer not the product. They might actually listen to our complaints.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by pTamok on Wednesday November 15 2023, @05:38PM (1 child)
＜AOL＞ Me too. ＜/AOL＞
My email provider claims to scan only for malware and junk, and only if I enable that scanning. Which is nice. IMAP works, and the webmail works. I pay for service, I get the service I pay for, no more, no less. It's good.
(Score: 2, Informative) by pTamok on Wednesday November 15 2023, @07:36PM
Oops. I've just realised that someone might misconstrue my "＜AOL＞ Me too. ＜/AOL＞" meme.
Nothing to do with the hashtag #MeToo
I'm showing my age here.
Long ago, when the Internet was young, and so was I, AOL was a separate dial-up online service (Originally, America Online [wikipedia.org]). The Internet took off, and AOL pivoted and made available access to Usenet to all the dial-up users*. They had their own culture, and if someone wrote about their experiences, or posted a bug report, many people posting from the AOL part of the world would simply reply 'Me Too'. The behaviour was endemic and cluttered up threads that had contained more substantive content, so it became a meme: writing "Me too." became a badge of naïve cluelessness and not respecting existing group behaviours. Hence ＜AOL＞ Me too. ＜/AOL＞.
Absolutely nothing to do with the more recent #MeToo movement.
*Eternal September:
(Score: 2) by RedGreen on Thursday November 16 2023, @12:52AM
"There's always the possibility of stuff like this; but it's less likely since you're the customer not the product. They might actually listen to our complaints."
Good to see such naïvety still exists in the world, the parasite corporations like leopards never change their spots when it suits their purpose they will get around to doing it. Customer paying for the service or not will matter little to them in their decision to do it. Me I never see that garbage html mail it is disabled and always has been in my email client, only plain text there, the only time I see it is when I log into my webmail spam catcher accounts. And that is not often usually when adding a new login for some site that needs confirmation.
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