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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

it's also a big FU to everyone accessing Gmail's web interface over geostationary satellite internet connections. i had to deal with that shit for a few months and HTML mode was the only way to ease the pain from how bad the latency can get. the "normal" view would hang like a mofo all the time.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Wouldn't a locally installed IMAP client produce less traffic than any web UI? I only use those.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yes, it would and I will never understand why someone would use the web interface.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I can't speak for others, but I typically don't use email on the PC. When it is more convenient to use the PC, usually because of an attachment, I will log into the browser version.

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