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Comment by resoluteteeth | Hacker News Reader

This is no different than how Google operates. It's once of the disadvantages of having one account for all services from a company.

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That's why I see Google as a big jerk. Now I see Vivaldi as a small jerk, and I just put a note on my personal notebook to not use their browser.

If you want Gmail but don't want the risk, you should really use a Google Workspaces account.

Can you explain further? I've never heard this as a benefit of Google Workspaces.

What he really meant is having email on your own domain.

If you have your own domain and Google bans you, you can just go elsewhere. If your @gmail address gets banned, it’s the end of it.

What he implied is that you should own the domain for your email that way you can change email hosting providers without having to tell everyone and every service your new email.

Exactly. I use Microsoft's email service. For $69/year I can point several domains (I think the limit is 99) to my inbox. If I get sick of Microsoft, or they block me, it's my domain and I can move it to another provider.

$69/yr for service you could run yourself on a couple $5/yr VPSs just by configuring Postfix one time.

For that price you also get access to the entire Office App suite, both online and desktop app, and 1 TB of OneDrive cloud storage.

>just by configuring Postfix one time.

If only hosting your own email was this simple.

i just use improvmx to forward all my email to my gmail

You don't want gmail, you just think you do. Get an account where they care about you. I've been on fastmail for years, they don't make money from other ads and so their incentives are aligned with mine. There are other email companies that you can use as well. (Or at least get a paid google account if you really think you need google mail)

Thanks for completely ignoring the "if" and recommending my own email provider to me, followed by verbatim repeating what I said in parenthesis. 10/10 mansplain.

(I might be slightly salty about the repeated use of "he" further down this chain when "they" is a perfectly fine unassuming default)

Doesn't make it right.

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