"We never said whose life" - Google, probably
this post was submitted on 20 May 2026
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With paid softwares and services, it's always the lifetime of the product's profitability.
Had my account since the Gmail inception, before public signups. Definitely happened to me. Switched to Proton.
I have had mine for literal decades as well, and used it for so much stuff over the years it is hard to entirely ditch. However i have switched to proton some years ago as well and simply set up mail forwarding to my new account, in case anything important ever comes in over that gmail.
So Google is still reading a large part of your mail.
I did the same thing except that I changed my email for the services I receive most mails from. After a few months, very little communication still flowed through my Gmail address.