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It's not fair, it is legal, and there's nothing you can do about it. You will never be able to talk to a human at Google about this. Even paying customers of their all-important ad business can't really talk to helpful humans about things.

The only solution is to support US elected officials who want to break up Google. There is no solution for you in particular.

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This is the answer. It's really unfortunate but it's no longer worth while to do a roll-you-own email solution unless you are willing to accept some delivery issues. The big players control the game and you have no say in the matter.

>The only solution is to support US elected officials who want to break up Google. There is no solution for you in particular.

If past monopoly stories are anything to go by, the legislation is a lagging indicator of mass societal or market movement away from the offending product and will dampen Google's decline.

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