Submitted 23 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/google-is-now-letting-users-in-the-us-change-their-gmail-address/
Users will be able to change their username only once every 12 months. Plus, they won’t be able to delete their new email address for that period of time.
Archived version: archive.is/…/google-is-now-letting-users-in-the-u…
I already changed it in Europe.
to proton
why would I change my spam account?
This isn’t for you, it’s for the literal Epstein class who had their Gmail addresses leaked in the files.
This is starting to make more sense.
Giving all those people with stupid, penis-oriented, middle-school email acoounts a second chance.
my was my nick name from middle school and i’ve been regretting it for the last 22 years. lol
Had that email address for over 25 years. It’s the only one that has my actual name attached to it. It’s how very very very old friends and people I haven’t talked to since college still manage to reach out and get in contact with me. I don’t think I wanna change it. I have other, newer email addresses I use for contemporaneous stuff.
This is why I bought a domain years ago. Change and alias and whatever I want whenever I want.
Oh, I had my own Web server for a couple of decades, and while that was useful, maintaining my own email server was a pain in the ass. Especially for junk mail filtering.
Very old news?
I beleive they announced it before, but today it went live.
That’s simply false, I already used the feature, I believe over a month ago but it could’ve maybe been earlier march
hesh@quokk.au 23 hours ago
I changed my Gmail address already, to one that doesn’t end in gmail.com