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  R X Mahadi Khan (@rxmahadikhan) reported 4 minutes ago

  @TeamYouTube To be transparent,I did have an old channel back in 2021 that was terminated due to copyright issues.Recently,I added that old Gmail account as a recovery email to my current account.

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  gxjo (@gxjo_dev) reported 6 minutes ago

  Someone explain this to me Why does Google still struggle with Gemini quality ? owns Android owns Chrome controls search has YouTube data has Gmail data this is the biggest data moat on earth so why do OpenAI and Anthropic still lead What's the problem?

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  Cheng Eden (@CEden35980) reported 14 minutes ago

  @TeamYouTube I need technical help. My newly created Gmail account (used for AdSense) was suspended by Google and has now been successfully appealed/restored. However, my YT channel's Step 2 is still stuck on "Error" with no button to reconnect or fix. Please Help!

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  Ilya Abyzov (@IlyaAbyzov) reported 16 minutes ago

  Gmail contains the 2FA keys to my entire life and keeps me logged in indefinitely. United rents me a chair in the sky, redeemable only with government ID, and logs me out every 30 seconds like Economy Plus is an NSA server.

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  The Beacon AI (@TheBeaconAI) reported 18 minutes ago

  Google's Gmail integration reveals AI personalization's real consent problem The feature is called Personal Intelligence. The controversy it triggered is about something older and harder to fix. A social media post viewed over 6.5 million times exposed what many users hadn't noticed: automatically opted in to allow Gmail to access private messages to train AI models. Google's response: no policies changed, Gmail content isn't used to train Gemini. Both things can be technically true. Neither one resolved the problem. The actual issue isn't what Google is doing. It's that most users have no accurate mental model of what's happening to their data at any given moment. Personal Intelligence routes existing stored data into AI responses. From a policy standpoint, that's a meaningful distinction. From a user's standpoint, the line between "Google has my email" and "Google's AI is actively reading my email to answer my questions" feels like a different thing entirely. To fully escape AI scanning, users must disable three separate features buried across different menus. The opt-out exists. Finding it requires more technical literacy than most users have. The default state effectively becomes the permanent state for 1.8 billion Gmail users. Users in the EU, UK, and Japan have these features disabled by default. That gap is not an accident. It's regulatory arbitrage in practice. Every AI assistant that gets genuinely useful is one that knows more about you. The usefulness and the privacy exposure scale together. The question the industry hasn't answered is whether meaningful consent is possible at this level of data integration, or whether "opt-in" has become a word that describes a checkbox and nothing more.

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  CatoTheYounger (@catoletters) reported 20 minutes ago

  to Daszak, Morens wrote: “PS, I forgot to say there is no worry about FOIAs. I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail, or hand it to him at work or at his [Fauci’s] house. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.”

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  John Wittle (@JohnWittle) reported 22 minutes ago

  @sinnformer @AnthropicAI i'm surprised you haven't already ran into trouble when my boss wanted to give claude access to a separate gmail account for media contacts, anthropic converted her account into a google SSO account under that email and revoked all her auths and org api tokens i assumed the same would be true of any other 'connector' that could serve as an SSO tbh

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  Jason Park (@Jason_scales1) reported 23 minutes ago

  the myth: you need gmail/google accounts to get good deliverability. here's what's actually true: google accounts deliver well. nobody disputes that. the problem is cost structure, not performance. if you're running proper cold outreach at scale, google accounts with separate domains will cost you meaningfully more per inbox per month than outlook/azure accounts running equivalent volume. and you still need to buy the domains either way. outlook and azure inboxes, when properly warmed and configured, deliver to primary at comparable rates. the deliverability gap between properly set up outlook infrastructure and properly set up google infrastructure is smaller than most people assume, and significantly smaller than the cost gap. the people pushing google-only are often either: a) not running the volumes where cost per inbox actually matters, or b) selling google workspace setup services the real question isn't gmail vs outlook. it's: is your infrastructure correctly configured regardless of which provider you use? SPF aligned. DKIM signing active. DMARC set. warmup completed. volume within earned reputation. list hygiene maintained. all of that matters more than your inbox provider. by a significant margin. don't let the provider debate distract you from the fundamentals that actually determine where you land.

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  Nate Finger (@Natebuildsai) reported 23 minutes ago

  @gregisenberg 99% of SMBs will never be structured for agents. They run on QuickBooks, Gmail threads, and tribal knowledge. That's not a bug to fix — it's the actual market. Build agents that work despite the mess.

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  Shawn Sully (@aroogle) reported 23 minutes ago

  @LizzieTao @gmail Well, I would like to see some automations directly in Gmail. Everybody who pays some SaaS or has a fancy agent set up can send automated emails anyway but they are usually spammy and terrible. Why not make actually good automated emails powered by Gemini that create value for all parties? I see a future where my Gmail agent sends another Gmail agent an email and they find a business synergy between my company and another company based on data and facts. The people just sign off the deal and then Gemini integrates our platforms and builds the feature. I’d love that future.

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  Singular Prism (@singular_prism) reported 28 minutes ago

  @reach_vb I logged in my gmail on the in-built browser and asked it to resolve a double debit on my credit card from an insurer. It looked up the history of mails for older unresolved ticket. Drafted mails and added proper attachments for both the insurer and the cc company. The issue which hadn't been resolved for more than a month got resolved in a day. Looks like i won't be using chrome much in the future.

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  Zecheng Zhang (@zechengzh) reported 28 minutes ago

  @high_byte grep /gmail /mongodb internally calls the search api to search the whole data base. So it’s relatively slow and I set some search limit to avoid return too much value to AI agents

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  Arthur LA Smith (@lastahyes) reported 28 minutes ago

  found this crazy design situation in Alphabet Google Gmail web services. I was looking up in my Gmail for a receipt and was not able to find it. Gmail is designed to automatically look up the keyword as "if the email itself has the words." it created two huge design problems. one: automatic read and system write operations as a services. meaning anything in the body and header is questionable and forced to be watched by security. two: i can never trust my ID because businesses are not restricted embedding my ID in the body or headers and Gmail doesn't tell me or warn me that my contact info was found to be controlled by a company. put it into perspective. I send you an email, with embedded image of a receipt and it contains your contact info. the system can not read what the image is and you can not tell me to stop tracking my ID. the fact is, embedding is a corporate tool used to secure, safe guard, and drive employee and company powers over the customers product or services sale. customers are powerless to ask companies to respect my way of doing business. if someone decides to deceive the reality is, to me, this was premeditated due to norms that everyone and all is grouped in Untrusted and debanked theories of abuse. in a sense, guilty, of a crime, which was thought of, and had not happened yet, suggesting it will. how horrific is that to have to live around crime and be managed so that I couldn't escape it because it was that someone already predicted my ability because of my position as being in the demographics, economy, orientation, process, of state of mind. I do not know how to deal with this fact that I found my personal info has to be written and not embedded as to allow me, the consumer, control over my data.

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  Karim C (@BrandGrowthOS) reported 30 minutes ago

  @nummanali same hesitation here. i give my agents access to github, n8n workflows, even my home server apis... but gmail? that's where i draw the line. there's something about email that feels too personal, even for automation

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  𝜗℘ ◟ ͜ Sylvie ,🍰 . Vincent's ♡ (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.) (@vincentsbelle) reported 31 minutes ago

  How many accounts do you have? Twitter: - 2 Discord: - 4 Instagram: - 1 Facebook: - 1 Snapchat: - 0 (im not being tracked down by highschool chavs mate) TikTok: - 6 Twitch: - 1 Steam: - 1 YouTube: - 1 Spotify: 1 Pinterest: - 1 Reddit: - 1 Gmail: - 6 Telegram: - 0