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That ship has sailed. A far as most are concerned gmail is email. So that is now the reality. Google has successfully, without any resistance, assimilated email and the web.

I run my own mail and I faithfully avoid chrome as much as I can but the ship is long gone over the horizon.

Sad. But so it goes.

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Not true for me. All businesses of any size, and even most small businesses, that email me have their own domain. Individuals use a variety of services, and even one or two non-geeks use their own domains.

Surprise surprise : lots of companies really use gmail with a custom domain. No way to escape.

Lots do, and lots do not.

I'm having to leave Gmail soon (kicking and screaming) because they've made it so you can't send mail using third-party email addresses anymore.

I have 8 email addresses configured through Gmail, only a few of which I even own the domain for. My main email address goes back 25 years. I've been using Gmail for over a decade, but I guess I have to switch to Fastmail, which is so frustrating because everyone has standardized on Gmail.

I have emails from gmail, hotmail, yahoo and my own domain. Also many browsers. I use Google stuff mostly because it works best. It's sort of how the free market is supposed to work?

Yes, largely, as long as we have all those choices, including using smaller providers and self-hosting email.

The danger is that a small number of businesses will lock others out.

When i worked in small ISP, i did some stats on customer accounts (about 2k customers) and only about 10% was @gmail.com. But it was 5 years ago and in EU.

How many web.de and free.fr?

None/negligible. It was ISP in Czechia, about 50% was @seznam.cz, 15% together two smaller local freemails, 10% @gmail.com, 25% individual/unique domains.

What do you use, Fayafox?

bog standard firefox. usability is superior to chromium wrt bookmarking and custom signed extensions are easier to share across systems.

With that attitude, certainly.

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