Spark now charging $6 a month for their email service that was previous free for customers - eviltoast

This is so annoying. They are acting like they were doing such a good deed offering email for “free” to their customers. But all the customers never assumed it was free they saw it as an included service in their broadband plan.

    • purrtastic@lemmy.nz
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      8 months ago

      As part of my degoogling I ended up on Fastmail + 1Pass and my own domain which is the endpoint for masked emails. It works great and no online services get my actual email address.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nzOP
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      8 months ago

      Enough people where they don’t want to pay to support it. I think its better to use an isp email than use Google Gmail.

      Personally I use proton though.

      • Rangelus@lemmy.nz
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        8 months ago

        Meh, google is so much more convenient. I just put up with the fact that they have all my data lpl