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I am an ex-user. A search through my email archive would regularly take ten seconds while gmail would do it instantly. The most frustrating thing about it was constant insisting on how super-fast it was in all their marketing while my experience was completely opposite.

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My experience is that search and UI transitions are blazing fast. It crashes (rarely, but more than I like) and requires a restart. But I love it and am happy to pay $30/m for it.

Honest question. If this is not sarcasm, what makes it worth $30 a month. I can't think of a single other software I would pay that much for.

Apple's policies permit charging $360/year for that email client, so they do, and that's actually cheaper than many small iOS utilities and games. Since you can cancel any time it is presented as your fault if a small utility, recently worth maybe a buck or two, quietly charges you hundreds of dollars.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/07/12/predatory-ios-app-subscri...

It's not even a native app

Really? Mine is the exact opposite experience. Gmail, the website, takes at least 2 minutes to load and be usable, so much that I need to use a separate extension to use it normally (Checker Plus for Gmail).

That's bizarre. Two minutes? Mine takes about 3-6 seconds generally. Yours is 20x as much.

It takes around that much time until interactivity, yeah. It's incredibly slow, and I have gigabit internet.

I'll mention this yet again so everyone can ignore it, but if you use the HTML-only option, it's clunkier but very fast. But I can say this 100 times and nobody does it.

I can confirm the HTML-only option is great, and there is one for holdouts of Facebook too: https://mbasic.facebook.com

(also via Tor https://mbasic.facebookcorewwi.onion)

Something is pathologically broken for you. Don’t know whether it’s client side like a corrupted browser or service side like a malformed attachment that is causing Gmail to thrash. Chances of course are that the problem is on your end.

100% sure. I have been using gmail since forever on all sorts of networks and devices and never ever has taking "being useful" 20 seconds, unless there is something very wrong on my side.

Weirdest thing is that an add-on makes it faster, how's that even possible without a serious MiTB problem?

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