> I still think it's less likely to get banned from gmail than my local hdds to fail
Uhh the whole discussion is about exactly this problem which you've decided won't happen to you because ... ?
Thunderbird rules and isn't going away, and makes things like blocking remote images easy (as opposed to gmail where you lose basic UX if you turn it off so most people don't).
What's more, gmail's basic features have really suffered in the last 10+ years. I search 20 years of email in Thunderbird faster and more efficiently than the bloatware POS gmail is now.
But best of all, I don't use gmail! I never have to worry about the nightmare scenarios presented here and nobody spies on my email (other than the NSA :) )
Oh -- physical backups rule too. From rotating through various drives my email is backed up at least 16 times over.
Uhh the whole discussion is about exactly this problem which you've decided won't happen to you because ... ?
Thunderbird rules and isn't going away, and makes things like blocking remote images easy (as opposed to gmail where you lose basic UX if you turn it off so most people don't).
What's more, gmail's basic features have really suffered in the last 10+ years. I search 20 years of email in Thunderbird faster and more efficiently than the bloatware POS gmail is now.
But best of all, I don't use gmail! I never have to worry about the nightmare scenarios presented here and nobody spies on my email (other than the NSA :) )
Oh -- physical backups rule too. From rotating through various drives my email is backed up at least 16 times over.