Lootman wrote:BobbyD wrote:Lootman wrote:I can avoid Yahoo if I choose to. But avoiding Google is pretty difficult. My phone requires a Google account for a start. And Gmail is the standard these days unless you want to be bombarded by video ads (Yahoo).
Plus I have had my main couple of email accounts now for 10/20 years. Everyone knows them and it would be a right royal pain in the butt to switch them over, and I would lose my instantly recognisable email addresses.
So no, I cannot just switch as easily as you suggest.
That's the very definition of you don't have to.
Not from my perspective.
If I was wearing a different hat I'd probably go...
Sounds like an ambitious set of requirements to expect for free.
If you want it then pay for it. If you don't then find another way.
In this case there is competition and it is trivially easy to switch from one carrier to another.
But hey I get it's painful when things change...
From Google's perspective this is improving customer service and similarly they don't need the customers that can't see that
- they will not stop you from going somewhere else or putting in some system that circumvents their security
- if you needed to I'm pretty sure you can have IMAP forwarding done in the cloud for gmail (if that's the only thing you need - you can probably get instructions via a new thread here)
or you could try apple as an alternative - but they're a bit more draconian and restrictive on the old 2FA logging in thing
- sd