On 20 May 2022, at 2:16, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> In that blog post I write: “If the provider stops supporting other 
> authentication schemes (which is almost true for Google) then the provider 
> has the power to decide which email clients are allowed to access Gmail.”

I’d like to remind folks that there are several other top-tier email service 
providers that have less motivation for user lock-in. They generally charge a 
few dollars a month, which IMO is a bargain given how much of a hassle 
maintaining an email server is. And it’s nice to be the customer rather than 
the product being sold once in a while. My personal favorite is Fastmail. They 
use app passwords for third party clients rather than OAuth.

Cheers,
-sam
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