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Me, who's had a Gmail account as my main email for twenty plus years. 😞
I've been meaning to switch off of Google for months now, but never had the time to properly research what exactly that entails
Curious what you decide. I feel trapped. My Gmail has been my primary account for almost 20 years. With that kind of longevity, switching would be extremely disruptive.
When I did it I just forwarded my mails to the new service (fastmail) and changed mail address whenever a mail got forwarded in. When I didn't receive a forwarded mail for a year or so I deleted my old mail and never looked back.
If you use a password manager this get easier though, since you can just lookup where the old mail is used.
Never realized this was a benefit of password managers. Even happier I've been on Bitwarden a few years now.
I kept Gmail, but gradually switched over to proton. Eventually, year or two later, it's full of emails I don't glcare about. Start now and take it slow.
I've heard good things about proton. Considering switching to that as well. Other than heading so many places use your old email until you update it is there any reason you did it gradually?
No, that's the only reason. I didn't want to flood my new inbox with emails I don't need.
3 months later I finally started the process. Got Proton Unlimited and am slowly transitioning my Google drive over
Try to create a new email on a privacy respecting service and start with setting up email forwarding from Gmail to the new email. Then you just kinda slowly move your accounts over for a period of months or even years. I still keep my unused Gmail forwarding just in case.
Gmail is only 19 years old, but okay.
I've had it since it came out, so 19 years then I guess. Cut me some slack.