I am absolutely not surprised that Google would do this. They don’t
want desktop email clients to exist; they want you on their web
application that they control. The owner of GyazMail said:
After May 30, 2022, GyazMail no longer can access your Google account.
Secure access (OAuth authentication) to your GyazMail Google account
is not supported for the following reasons:
A verification process by Google must be required in order to access
Gmail more securely.
The verification process costs between $10,000 and $75,000 every year.
Google will take weeks to complete the verification process.
Just like they don’t want ad blockers to exist, so they’re switching
to Chrome Manifest V3, that is more restrictive to the lists that ad
blockers can use, from v2 that is more lenient.
Google isn’t your friend anymore. They have the power and they’re
going to use it.
Steven Taylor
509-280-9198
sgtay...@taylorcomputing.biz
https://www.taylorcomputing.biz
On 8 Jun 2024, at 6:51, Pierre Igot wrote:
Hi all,
Just yesterday, I was thinking about how lucky we MailMate users are
to have such a powerful, Mac-friendly app on our Macs and such a
dedicated and responsive developer who keeps updating and improving it
and fixing all kinds of problems.
And then today Benny sends his email about Google and the CASA tier 2
assessment…
While I stopped trusting big tech companies (including Apple!) a long
time ago, which means that I rely on their products and services as
little as possible and therefore that I am not a heavy Gmail user and
would probably survive fairly comfortably without being able to use MM
for Gmail access, it would be yet another annoyance and yet another
enforced stumble down the enshittification drain.
I hope that Benny will find the energy and patience to maintain his
app’s status with the powers that be at Google in the future, but I
feel that this also means that, today more than ever, Benny really
needs our support, including in very material ways. This is is why, if
you feel the way I do about MailMate and about the fact that it is NOT
just another Mac app that could be easily replaced if something
happened to it, and if you are not yet a MailMate Patron and could
afford to be one, I urge you to become one. If I remember correctly,
Benny once said that he wouldn’t be able to keep working on MailMate
with regular sales alone and he really needs the regular support of
patrons to keep going.
I have no links to Benny. I am just a (very) happy customer, and I am
writing this completely spontaneously. While I understand that quite a
lot of people are allergic to software *subscriptions*, and I dislike
them myself, I am willing to make exceptions, and MM is definitely one
of them. Being a MM Patron is a kind of subscription. But I really
feel that the app and the developer fully deserve it.
If MailMate feels essential to you like it does to me, I suspect that
Benny’s latest message about his troubles with the Google evaluation
process also reminded you of how much work has to go on behind the
scenes that most of us are not even aware of in order to maintain this
essential app. And I really feel that work deserves to be compensated
— regularly, and not just with a (very reasonably priced) one-off
purchase.
Pierre
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