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1. Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2019 20:28:40 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅
   This might be a piece of news I missed, because I havn't been a Gmail user for a long time.
   
   It looks like Google is now claiming that Thunderbird is an "insecure app" and turning off IMAP support - with predictably dire consequences for non-techy Gmail users who use Thunderbird as a client.
   
   So it seems that Google is doing similar monopolistic lock-in stuff that Microsoft pioneered. Thunderbird of course doesn't display ads and so this is why Google want Gmail users using the web interface or some official Google email client which does show the ads.
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   • Alexander Bochmann (galaxis@mastodon.infra.de)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2019 20:44:00 CET Alexander Bochmann

     in reply to

     @bob The other tactic against IMAP users is claiming that "logins from an unknown location have been blocked" or something in that vein. Happens every time my partner moves from her Wifi to mine (which, for some reason, is being geolocated to a different city).

     Aral Balkan repeated this.