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Comment by MyFirstSass | Hacker News Reader

Think i'll finally give Kagi a try - also thinking about moving to Fastmail or similar.

The results are so ridiculous now i've actively begun hating them, that coupled with a short stint using Google Ads a few years ago and i'm convinced Google is a very, very shady company that i can't wait to ditch fully.

Docs wise i've begun to look up on GPT-4 a lot though instead of stack, official sites etc. so i'm already using search less in general.

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I switched to fastmail from gmail a few months ago and I'm incredibly happy with it. I even got to keep my *@mydomain wildcard addresses, and the fastmail calendar implementation is not half bad.

Quick question:

Were you using Google apps for your domain (or whatever it’s called now)? And if, were you able to maintain access to your Google docs and other Google-based services (play, etc)?

I was not. I switched from an @gmail.com address. However, I think the real answer to your question is that your email address is your ID for Google services, whether its MX records point to Google or not.

The big surprise for me re: fastmail is how much better their UI and UX are. I was prepared to pay money to sacrifice usability to avoid gmail and have been happily surprised.

I was on Fastmail until Opera bought them. Looks like they have since bought back their company, but there wasn't a compelling reason for me to go back.

I don't get the point of your comment. They were only owned by Opera from 2010 to 2013, that's more than 10 years ago.

Been using Fastmail for several years now, and Kagi for several months. Can heartily recommend both

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