Labels can complicate the migration away from Gmail, especially if the receiving service doesn't provide specific import tools. This post describes a way of handling such a case.
https://www.locked.de/how-to-migrate-gmail-to-another-provider-without-breaking-the-mail-history
THIS IS IMPORTANT: DO NOT TRUST GOOGLE GEMINI, and it may already be enabled in your GMAIL BY DEFAULT.
DO NOT TRUST GOOGLE!
#Google says it may share your interactions with #Gemini #AI with law enforcement, including involving Gemini features in #Gmail. Given Google's CEO Sundar's enthusiastic embrace of the Fascist Trump administration and teaming Gemini with Hegseth's Department of Defense, I NO LONGER TRUST GOOGLE.
Pay attention to this. Google -- as always -- says they do not give user data to law enforcement except with a valid warrant. This has long been true, but I no longer trust Google to honor this position. A quick call from Trump to Sundar could well be enough to bypass those past protections. Discussing an anti-Trump demonstration? Abortion? Helping local immigrants? You can no longer trust Google to not treat your data as fodder for fascist Trump, irrespective of Google's public statements.
VERY IMPORTANT: It appears that if you have "Smart Features" enabled in Gmail -- which has long included a variety of features, you now probably (or soon will) also have Gemini scouring through your email. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND turning this off. Can we be sure Google will really honor this choice given their embrace of Trump? No, but it's important to have specified your choice on the record.
To turn off Gmail smart features (apparently including Gemini, though other ways to ostensibly turn off Gemini in Gmail may also be available):
Enter Gmail
Click the Gear icon at the upper right
Click "See all settings"
Stay on the "General" tab
Scroll down to "Smart features" -- make sure it is unchecked
Just below this (currently) is "Google Workspace smart features"
Click the "Manage Workspace smart feature settings" bubble
Make sure the toggles are OFF (to the left) for everything listed in the pop-up
that appears. Be SURE TO SCROLL DOWN -- there are currently TWO toggles
but the second may be completely hidden if you don't grab the little scrollbar on the right and pull it down. Again, make sure BOTH toggles are off.
Click Save
Now back on the General Tab, scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and click Save Changes if that button is not already greyed out and unclickable.
That's what I have for you for now, based on the information I have right now.
More as I learn more.
It's a terrible situation that pains me greatly. Before you ask, I do not at this time have a recommendation for other major email providers.
How you proceed is up to you, of course.
Take care.
L
This is the script of my national radio report yesterday discussing how AI data centers are damaging communities, and now are damaging everyone who buys computers by massively driving up the cost of a critical component. As always, there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented this report live on air.
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Well, we've talked before about the flood of massive new data centers being built around the country, that many communities are pushing back against now -- data centers mostly to support AI services that nobody asked for and most people don't want. And we continue to see new pushes by those Big Tech Billionaire CEOs and their politician supporters to force AI into everybody's lives in every possible way no matter how much damage they do.
It was just announced that Apple is going to use Google's Gemini AI models for Siri. Google itself is rolling out a pile of Gemini AI features in Gmail to "scour" -- that's the word I saw them use -- your email in ways that personally I'd recommend you refuse and disable when they're offered to you. Don't click that horrific little four pointed star when it shows up that says "Try Gemini" when you hover over it!
Oh and by the way, Google AI Overviews, which are so prone to wrong answers and misinformation, were found to be spewing incorrect and potentially dangerous answers to important medical question searches and Google had to back those off very recently after an outcry. Oh yeah, and OpenAI wants you to feed your personal medical records into a health-oriented version of ChatGPT. What could go wrong, huh?
My recommendation for now is Just Say No to all this AI Slop. These giant AI data centers can ruin areas wherever they're built -- often originally pristine rural areas. They suck up massive amounts of electricity and can push electric rates up for everyone in the region. They can slurp up massive amounts of water for cooling and make existing water prices and water shortages worse. They can cause noise and air pollution from generators, and word now is that many want their own little nuclear reactors for power with the obvious issues of dealing with the waste and potential terrorism.
But now Big Tech has found a way to cost us more money even if you don't live ANYWHERE near a data center! The crush of so many new gigantic data centers is causing the supply to virtually collapse of a critical computer component, used in one form or another by all computers and computing systems, pushing up prices enormously. This component is DRAM, Dynamic Random Access Memory. This isn't like sdcards or other forms of memory that maintain their data without power. The amount of DRAM on a system is one of the basic specifications, today often 4 gigabytes or 8 or 16 or more. This is the actual high speed working memory of the computer where the operating system and programs and apps actually execute. In early days of computers working memory was tiny little magnetic iron doughnuts strung in a complex grid of x, y and sense wires. But for many decades now working memory has been solid state components, either soldered directly into computers (including devices like smartphones of course), or on sticks that can be soldered in or made removable via sockets.
And there have been many generations of DRAM over the years as this kind of memory got faster and denser in terms of capacity. So it's easy to see how shortages and price increases for DRAM being triggered by Big Tech AI's insatiable desire to take over everything is now having such a wide impact on the entire electronics industry.
AI wants our electricity, our water, our personal information, and so much more to churn out deepfakes, wrong answers, and other misinformation, all to benefit that handful of Big Tech Billionaires.
Of course it's up to every individual to decide if they're voluntarily going to participate in this mess when a choice is offered. But more and more that choice is being eliminated, and the reality continues to be that without serious legislation to reign in AI abuses and force Big Tech to take responsibility for the damage that AI causes, the situation is only going to rapidly get worse. It's already bad, but unfortunately when it comes to damage from AI, we haven't really seen anything yet.
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L
Zu welchem #Email Provider wechselt man denn geschickterweise, wenn man den #diday also Startpunkt für Umzüge nutzen möchte und bisher #Gmail oder #outlook_com Nutzerin ist?
Eigentlich wollte ich zum heutigen #DiDit #dutGemacht ein gönnerhaftes Posting absetzen was ich alles seit Jahren migriert habe. Dann hat mich aber dieses doch tolle Blogpost von @pallenberg mitgerissen: ja, E-Mail ist der Kern des Ganzen:
https://www.metacheles.de/digital-independence-day-1-email-anbieter-einfach-wechseln/
Also heute Wechsel von #gmail zu @mailbox_org… (1/6)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/08/google_gemini_gmail/
'The threat' is absolutely brilliantly written.
#TheRegister #google #gemini #ArtificialIntelligence #grift #gmail
Helft mir mal:
#GMail archivieren.
Bester weg?
Einfach als .eml irgendwo wegspeichern?
Habe 2x ~5000 Mails, die ich nicht auf meinen eigenen #Mailserver ziehen will, wenn ich die Accounts dichtmache.
Das eine Postfach sind Mails meist von online-Shops (gemischt Rechnungen, Benachrichtigungen Newsletter etc); das andere Postfach hab ich genutzt, um mich bei allerlei Diensten anzumelden (per Mailadresse, "Login mit Google" hab ich zum Glück nie benutzt)
@dada
Est-ce qu'on attend d'avoir la gueule dans le mur pour qu'ils comprennent alors ? 🤔
Honnêtement, ça fait combien de dizaines d'années qu'on est nombreux à alerter sur l'absence de #souveraineté #numérique en #France et en #Europe ?
Vous croyez que beaucoup de gens sont en train de quitter #Gmail ? #Whatsapp ? #Facebook ? ...
Eigentlich wollte ich zum heutigen #DiDit #dutGemacht ein gönnerhaftes Posting absetzen was ich alles seit Jahren migriert habe. Dann hat mich aber dieses doch tolle Blogpost von @pallenberg mitgerissen: ja, E-Mail ist der Kern des Ganzen:
https://www.metacheles.de/digital-independence-day-1-email-anbieter-einfach-wechseln/
Also heute Wechsel von #gmail zu @mailbox_org… (1/6)
Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts
https://baecher.dev/stdout/incremental-backups-of-gmail-takeouts/
#HackerNews #Incremental #Backups #Gmail #Takeouts #CloudStorage #DataProtection #TechTips
La #privacy online si fa bollente: #Chrome inciampa nei test Digitain, #ChatGPT Atlas di #OpenAI è un disastro per mancanza di isolamento dati, lasciando #Tor Browser come re indiscusso 🔒. Passando a #Gmail, #Google regala un sogno atteso da anni: cambia il tuo username principale (max 3 volte + originale), con il vecchio che vira in alias eterno per email e accessi a #YouTube o Drive, ma attenzione al blocco di 12 mesi post-modifica 📧✨.
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La #privacy online si fa bollente: #Chrome inciampa nei test Digitain, #ChatGPT Atlas di #OpenAI è un disastro per mancanza di isolamento dati, lasciando #Tor Browser come re indiscusso 🔒. Passando a #Gmail, #Google regala un sogno atteso da anni: cambia il tuo username principale (max 3 volte + originale), con il vecchio che vira in alias eterno per email e accessi a #YouTube o Drive, ma attenzione al blocco di 12 mesi post-modifica 📧✨.
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