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X takes on Google: Elon Musk claims he's creating a Gmail rival dubbed 'XMail'
Daily Mail UK ^ | 05:56 EST, 23 February 2024 | JONATHAN CHADWICK

Posted on 02/25/2024 6:17:13 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Zhang Fei

“Grok, what stock should I buy?”


21 posted on 02/25/2024 6:59:55 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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To: RoosterRedux

Don’t be a Chicken Little, Rooster.


22 posted on 02/25/2024 7:06:46 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Red Badger

With XMail...if I’m quick...I might get a recognizable email address. Maybe moovova@xmail.com or hunk@xmail.com.

I waited so long with gmail, I had to settle for yh48nnw902z@gmail.com as an email address.

Try telling that to people when they ask for your email address.


23 posted on 02/25/2024 7:12:05 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Heheh.

I was kinda hoping that Gmail would shut down. From what I hear, Google algorithms read all the mail (looking for words like "MAGA," "AR-15," and "Sunday School") and give access to the FBI.

24 posted on 02/25/2024 7:15:53 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Google cross-correlates everything that passes through it. Your search terms and what you click through, your youtube history, comments, and patterns, gmail text, recipients, senders, topics, and dates, fitbit users/data/locations, waze location, all their cloud services and their use, anything where you authenticate using google, not to mention any ‘sharing’ agreements with other companies and governments.

On book they earn mostly from advertising revenue, secondly cloud, thirdly subscriptions and devices. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1093781/distribution-of-googles-revenues-by-segment/


25 posted on 02/25/2024 7:17:52 AM PST by No.6
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To: Jeff Chandler

I meant to ask, how’s your wife doing? She’s been on my prayer list.


26 posted on 02/25/2024 7:22:41 AM PST by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: metmom

If Musk and tie in his AI tool with Xmail and create a search engine like Google, it’s possible he could become a competitor to Google, if for no other reason than people are sick of Google and their antics.


27 posted on 02/25/2024 7:22:53 AM PST by srmanuel ( )
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To: Red Badger

Gmail’s primary draw is that it’s a key to that universe. If you’ve got a Gmail account then you also have a YouTube account, and googledocs, and google meet, and google drive. And if people want to share these things with you (ie include on a googledoc and talk about it with google meet) it’s way easier if you ALSO have a gmail account. Gmail itself is nothing, just another email server. But that key to the whole google universe, that’s something.


28 posted on 02/25/2024 7:26:13 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: Red Badger

I’ll get x mail as soon as available.


29 posted on 02/25/2024 7:26:17 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: Red Badger

>> Musk has a habit of making outlandish promises that don’t come to fruition

...says Jonathan Chadwick, a snotnose journalism grad who has never done anything noteworthy in his whole life.

Should I believe him? Or believe my own lyin’ eyes?


30 posted on 02/25/2024 7:31:38 AM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Some mega entrepreneur will come along after him and rename everything to Y.

Followed by yet another mega entrepreneur who will come along after him and rename everything to 'Y-not?'...

31 posted on 02/25/2024 7:31:40 AM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: Red Badger

For sure I will look at X-Mail when it comes out. My guess is that it will be like Proton Mail that is encrypted. I Mosty use Gmail, because its search is v good and it is highly navigable. But I will be out!!! of Gmail and archive my inbox which is getting near the 15GB limit and has done so a few times. Then switch to X-Mail. And notify everyone which is a pain in arse.
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I know XMail will not be the data collecting morass monster that Gmail and Yahoo mail are. Microsoft’s web based Outlook Mail too. Collecting data because they can. Though they also sell this data to marketers/ How much cam they earn from this? I doubt that it is super high dollars/

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32 posted on 02/25/2024 7:36:20 AM PST by dennisw (In Trump we trust. All others pay cash)
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To: Red Badger

I’m in. Take it down elon.


33 posted on 02/25/2024 7:38:57 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Red Badger

xmail.com is available.


34 posted on 02/25/2024 7:41:53 AM PST by Rio
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To: RoosterRedux

“didn’t see it in the article (scanned only), but Google is shutting down gmail this year.”

That was false information bases on a fake meme.


35 posted on 02/25/2024 7:44:37 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: metmom

We have email with our service provider, but I also keep a Hotmail account for when I have to sign up to something and don’t want endless spam in my main account fro provider.

I also use mailinator.com , a free service which is a “temporary email” that doesn’t require signing up for, for when you jusy know that a site will spam you terribly- that is when I will give an address of say “bob@mailinator.com” or any name I can remeber well like say bookworm@mailinator dot com. Or whatever- just go to mailinator, type,in “bookworm@mailinator.com, and receive the sign up email from a site or store or whatever that required an address.

They delete emails after a few dayz- but I delete any that I have to use for sign-ups to other sites or whatever.

Better to use an easy to remember name PLUS a unique name or numbers or symbols beczuse generic ones like jusy bob@ will be used by a lot of folks, so i’ll do something like bob434_343@ instead, as that is likely to not be used, a d all email coming to the site will be for my account, not others as well.


36 posted on 02/25/2024 8:10:21 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Jeff Chandler

More like a homonym pun. Synonyms have the same general meaning. More accurately a homophone pun since both the spelling and the meaning are different, but the sound is the same.


37 posted on 02/25/2024 9:01:48 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: srmanuel
Let's hope Musk develops his own AI to compete with google.

If people have a choice between historically accurate results verse 'woke agenda results', people would choose historically accurate.

38 posted on 02/25/2024 9:01:52 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: srmanuel
I think it’s high time for someone to actually compete with Google, I’m not sure Elon Musk can do it, but if anyone can offer a credible option to Google, he can.

Yup. Who cares about Xmail. We need an XGoogle.

39 posted on 02/25/2024 9:06:29 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

Like I said earlier, if Elon Musk or someone else could create a credible alternative to Google, I think they would do extremely well, people are tired of the crap Google pulls daily on its users.


40 posted on 02/25/2024 9:41:38 AM PST by srmanuel ( )
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