Giving all those people with stupid, penis-oriented, middle-school email acoounts a second chance.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2026
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I changed my Gmail address already, to one that doesn't end in gmail.com
I hope all the people who keep signing up for stuff, sincerely believing my email address to be theirs, will take advantage of this opportunity.
why would I change my spam account?
This isn't for you, it's for the literal Epstein class who had their Gmail addresses leaked in the files.
This is starting to make more sense.
Had that email address for over 25 years. It’s the only one that has my actual name attached to it. It’s how very very very old friends and people I haven’t talked to since college still manage to reach out and get in contact with me. I don’t think I wanna change it. I have other, newer email addresses I use for contemporaneous stuff.
Also, spam
This is why I bought a domain years ago. Change and alias and whatever I want whenever I want.
Oh, I had my own Web server for a couple of decades, and while that was useful, maintaining my own email server was a pain in the ass. Especially for junk mail filtering.
I agree. I don't host it myself though. I'm just Google's product with that super grandfathered free version of workspace.
Oh, I’m sorry, I clearly misunderstood what you said and what you were were referring to
You don't need to run your own email server to use a custom domain, some email providers let you use your own domain.
Shout out to Purely Mail!
Very old news?
I believe they announced it before, but today it went live.
That's simply false, I already used the feature, I believe over a month ago but it could've maybe been earlier march
Google said on Tuesday that it is now rolling out a way for users in the U.S. to change their Gmail address without starting over or losing access to their data.
Google are the liars then, not the article.
Well, do keep in mind "now rolling out" does not technically mean they now started rolling out; the way they worded it, they're simply currently in the process. So, could be typical corporate doublespeak.