• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    7 months ago

    From the comments on the article:

    There was this brief shining moment when we had Google Now and Google Inbox and, at least for me, they were incredibly useful tools. Then they transformed into a content chum box and a stale email platform respectively and, while I think I know why, I’ll never understand WHY.

    I feel this so hard. Inbox was so great and being forced back into old-school Gmail was so disappointing. RIP Inbox.

    • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      This.

      I’ll never forgive Google for killing Inbox. Of all the projects they killed, that one hurt the worst. I went from being able to actually manage my email to it turning right back into an unmanageable mess overnight, and in spite of their promises, not a single one of Inbox’s features that enabled this were ever implemented in main Gmail.

      That was a big turning point for me in being able to trust them for anything

    • 100_kg_90_de_belin @feddit.it
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      7 months ago

      There was a brief moment between Jelly Bean and Kit Kat in which Google Now and Inbox made being tracked by Google kind of useful in everyday life

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        7 months ago

        Until the idiots all complained about it being ‘creepy’. Ever since the tracking completely continued, but no longer with any benefit to us.

        Great job idiots. Why people just don’t opt not to use features they find ‘creepy’ I’ll never understand. They are only satisfied if they bring it down for everyone.