If this is the kind of technical advice you provide, which merely assumes that Google can do no wrong, and the user on the other end is incapable of pressing a button on a yet another website that checks email configuration, merely to confirm that the configuration of their mail server is not in any way incorrect, then it's not a surprise that you get downvoted into oblivion, according to your own statement earlier in this thread.
It’s hard to think of things that I care about less than the minutia of my email. Google’s an advertising business? So what? My Gmail has worked flawlessly for 19 years. If somehow Gmail fucks me over in the future, I’ll deal with that when the time comes. Until then, I’m not giving my email a second thought.
Google no longer uses Gmail data for targeting. No person or ai is reading your email from your grandmother, florist, or then confirmation that you bought paper towels on Amazon.
why does it matter? Google has access to read my email, and if they want (or are pushed to), they can single me out and then go and read them. Sure, 9/10 times it's a bot reading my emails, but there's nothing stopping them from doing it.
If your business is dependent on the Gmail API, your primary risk is that Google changes or deprecates the Gmail API, and you will have zero recourse if they do.
How do you know that you aren't some trivial but obscure SQL injectable HTTP POST away from losing all your mail on that provider? Because I gave you a reason to believe you don't have to worry about that on Google Mail.
In order to write something that reads user emails in Google APIs you have to go through multiple levels of hell, so I don't think that's a fair comparison
Which is still relevant, because Google won't give you access to your email unless you use a major browser (or imap, etc) regardless of whether you pay.
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