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title: Google Has My Email
date: 2014-05-11
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author: Cincinnatus
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## Dealing with the problem that is Gmail

Even if you run your own email server (or use a service like Federated Core), you will likely be interacting with those using Gmail.

https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-because-it-has-all-of-yours

It won't happen quickly or over-night, but we must choke out Gmail and other centralized emails services (looking at your outlook.com) if we are to reclaim email as a "free" as in "freedom" service.