@Tutanota To give Google the "killed the internet" title is shifting responsibility away from the biggest blow against the internet, and the company behind the destruction of the net. Google isn't killing the net with their AI search. The net was already dead.

This is something you notice exceptionally well when you shut the door on Meta and their services.

I cannot find opening hours for several things, I miss all sorta event information, I am locked out of most any community information.

Google isn't killing the internet.

Meta already did

Or rather, we did.

We are letting tech giants simplify us away from the "horrible complexity of the internet".

What Google is doing is giving a final blow to the little left that made us feel that we could call it "internet".

We can only hope that this will be a wakeup, that we can look back and think "Google was the final straw that broke the trust, and we finally took the internet back"

With a lot of help from age verification laws...

@Tutanota As for Tuta, their services are an amazing alternative for people looking to leave Google Mail.

Take the step, it takes a while, but swap your registered email, one at the time, and eventually you get there.

@SusiArnott I almost went for Proton, but after a bit more checking, landed on Tuta. It feels like a better option.

They seem a bit more community focused.

I still have a lot of email coming to gmail, it takes a while to switch everything. I think a common mistake is to get a service like Tuta with the intent of doing a "quick switch".

@Tutanota @tansy