Google will soon require you to provide your phone number first, before giving you 15GB.
But they will still bombard you with sponsored emails.
We need to move away from thinking that services that harvest your data and worsen the experience with injected adverts are “free”.
That said, many alternatives do have truly free plans. Check out Proton, IKMail or Atomic Mail, to name a few.
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I guess this sub will already be weary of Google services. But everyone should have a burner, prepaid sim card. Companies keep asking for a phone number mandatory, and I keep a junk sim card the way I keep a junk email I throw it away and get a new one every couple of years. I keep it deactivated at all tines in a dual sim phone and only turn it on when I’m expecting a verification message. Highly recommended. Although I know dome countries don’t have this available.
Weary and wary, yep.