[HN Gopher] Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change y...
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Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com
address
Author : geox
Score : 40 points
Date : 2025-12-25 21:36 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (9to5google.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (9to5google.com)
| nytesky wrote:
| This is so useful. a Gmail account is so much more than just an
| email account at this point. my first gmail account was made when
| anonymity and cool email was more of trend than your actual name
| - so i based upon my favorite book in 2006. 20 years later the
| account is tied to my oft used primary google voice number so
| lingers even with obscure and hard to spell email.
|
| i could gave moved my google voice number, but it seems like a
| convoluted process and have had my number since about Grand
| Central acquisition.
| kelseyfrog wrote:
| That would have been nice to have during transition. Creating a
| new account and updating 3rd parties was a huge pain and never
| got close to 100% completion.
| nmstoker wrote:
| Could this be a sign that Google is starting to think again?
|
| For an organisation that often does deeply intelligent things,
| they spend such a lot of time treating their users unnecessarily
| poorly because obvious implications seem not to occur to them.
| HocusLocus wrote:
| Boss move that I learned under great difficulty: a new temporary
| gmail alias for every jobsearch.
| pram wrote:
| iCloud Hide My Email is pretty good for this.
| njuhhktlrl wrote:
| myjobapplicationhasbeendenied-1582-timesalready@gmail.com will
| certainly end well.
| Imustaskforhelp wrote:
| Hm interesting, do you want to tell why this helps out a lot
| perhaps?
| sans_souse wrote:
| Stay tuned I have a pretty cool project I plan on launching
| very soon. It takes the email alias to the next level, using
| them as meta tags to actually allow users to trace the source
| of shady data exchanges. I'm working on the guide and I'm
| hoping to actually start a community effort here to hold
| companies accountable for responsible use of PII
| iamben wrote:
| I'm interested. How does it differ from using:
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| name+service@gmail.com or service@myowndomain.com
|
| ...to figure out where the spam originated?
| firefax wrote:
| I wish they'd let me recover my original -- I lost my TOTP
| generator, and the codes I'd written down in a paper notebook
| were rejected. I even hunted down the electronic copy in case
| there was a transcription error -- seemed like some failure in
| their systems was causing me to lose access despite having
| followed proper procedures.
|
| Lost a decade and a half of correspondence dating back to my
| teenage years. I had imported my phone number I'd had since I was
| 16 into voice, and it doubled as my Signal number. I even had a
| Gsuite subscription so I could use their (admittedly decently) UI
| to power my firstname @ lastname dot com email address.
|
| I will never use their services again, I was really digusted by
| this failure.
| ryukoposting wrote:
| Yikes. This post is an unsettling reminder that gmail is a
| single point of failure in my personal and financial security.
| fosco wrote:
| I still think about my lost address that I obtained when Gmail
| was invite only. My family still occasionally CCs it and it
| drives me nuts, I would pay money to at least have it shutdown
| so they don't think I received an email. I had email forwarding
| to another address when stolen and immediately after it was
| stolen it had the weirdest messages, I tried multiple ways
| reaching out to google and it still bugs me I was unsuccessful.
| I'd love the their of my account to at least have it shutdown
| aszen wrote:
| Seems useful. But what I really want is a way to merge google
| accounts, over the course of history I created 3 of them and
| would really prefer just a single one
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