Google plans to discontinue Gmail's Basic HTML version in January 2024, saying the view does not include “full Gmail feature functionality”
The blind think this is not a visionary decision — Google will discontinue the Basic HTML version of its Gmail service in January 2024.
The Register Simon Sharwood
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Discussion
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@signaltap@mastodon.online
@signaltap@mastodon.online
on mastodon
This was the only way we were able to access any email for the whole blizzard in Texas in 2021 because the rare signal that came through was so weak... This is a legit asset during disasters that is getting mothballed for what I assume is pretty marginal money, and probably has n…
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@thomasfuchs.at
@thomasfuchs.at
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Google is truly the new Microsoft en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace... [embedded post]
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@arielwaldman.com
Ariel Waldman
on bluesky
Looks like I really won't have access to email in Antarctica then! — The internet is so minimal there that I exclusively use the HTML version of Gmail while I'm there because the regular version can't load. [embedded post]
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@caseynewton.bsky.social
Casey Newton
on bluesky
This sucks. I met my wife on the basic HTML version of Gmail [embedded post]
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@shobhitnerd
@shobhitnerd
on x
One more google product bites the dust!! Probably Google was not able to harness much of our data through the basic HTML version, so they are killing it.