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Gmail API overview | Google for Developers
The Gmail API is a RESTful API that can be used to access Gmail mailboxes and send mail. For most web applications the Gmail API is the best choice for authorized access to a user's Gmail data and is suitable for various applications, such as:

Your online identity is owned by your email provider
Your email provider owns your online identity by controlling your email address. You can’t port your email address to another provider as with phone numbers.

Google accused of ‘predatory conduct’ over Gmail API withdrawal
Google has exploited a regulatory gap to withdraw access to the Gmail API, according to UK startup Gener8.

Simplify Gmail: Transform Gmail into a premium experience
A browser extension for Gmail from the co-founder of Google Inbox that boosts productivity, strengthens privacy, and reduces️ stress.
The Case for Unique Email Addresses — Musings
For the past few years, every company I interact with doesn't get the same email address from me. I'm trying to be as plain as possible w...

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Make your Gmail more private - Nathan Nelson
Proton, the Swiss encrypted and privacy-aware email service, now lets you read and reply to your Gmail emails from within Proton. If you’re looking to wean yourself off Gmail, or just curious about trying an alternative, this could be a good place to start: anyone you reply to will still receive your messages as Gmail, ... Read more
Persistent, Sandboxed, Single-Site Browser (firejail and proxychains) - Michael Altfield's Tech Blog
Or how to avoid getting locked-out of another Google Account This guide will describe how to setup a persistent browser (for Evil Corp) that’s isolated in a sandbox (with firejail) and forced to use a SOCKS5 proxy to retain a static IP address (using proxychains) Have you ever been locked out of your own account, and then got an email for your service provider annoyingly letting you know that they’ve “blocked a login attempt — for your protection?“ There’s countless reports of frustrated users who have permanently lost access to their own gmail accounts because of Google’s faulty “fraud protection” systems that locked the account owner out of their own account, due to false-positives. Problem Especially the past 10 years, large corporations have been using machine learning anomaly detection systems on their login pages. Unfortunately, sometimes this is (ab)used to have priority over credential authentication challenges. Even if you enter your username, password, and 2FA credentials correctly on the very first login attempt, you may get locked out of your own account because you “look different” Even if you enter your username, password, and 2FA credentials correctly on the very first login attempt, you may get locked . . . → Read More: Persistent, Sandboxed, Single-Site Browser (firejail and proxychains)

Incident Report: May 19, 2026- GCP Account Suspension
Railway experienced a platform-wide service disruption due to Google Cloud incorrectly placing our account in a suspended status. This resulted in a temporary loss of service for all GCP hosted infrastructure.

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Dear Manager, Again - Ewan’s Blog
Five months later, I have received essentially the exact same email.
Overview | Web guides | Google for Developers
Sign in with Google provides quick and secure user authentication on your website by allowing users to sign in with their Google Account and share profile information.

Jmail, logged in as jeevacation@gmail.com
You are logged into jeevacation@gmail.com, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

I think there needs to be a UK academic publishing server that provides permanent email addresses for researchers to use as corresponding authors. That way, people don't lose access when they move or leave an institution, and reviewer invitations can continue to be sent to a stable address #MicroSky
A funny thing happened the other day with @wilb.me and @timtrautmann.com and it gave me a silly idea
A funny thing happened in the Atmosphere
chrispardy.leaflet.pubhere is how i've been explaining PDS migration to the 115 users i've migrated: imagine your bluesky account as being an apartment. you're upset the rent is changing, so you move to a cheaper apartment on the other side of town. after you move, you have to update your address with the post office.
daniel holmgren 🫠
& you lose if you say the word "protocol", "decentralized", "repo", or "pds" to illustrate: the cloud is "the thing where i keep my photos when i drop my phone in a lake". if you even mention a "server" while explaining the cloud then you lost the thread