Andrew Ferguson, the Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Trade Commission, recently expressed concern that “Alphabet’s administration of Gmail is designed to have partisan effects.” In a letter addressed to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Ferguson pointed to a recent story in the New York Post describing complaints by Targeted Victory (a consulting and PR firm that’s worked with the Republican National …
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Apple’s Hide My Email is a feature that lets users create unique, random email addresses that forward to their main inbox. However, Hide My Email is exclusive to Apple’s ecosystem. If you primarily use Gmail, which many of us do, Hide My Email isn’t directly accessible. Gmail doesn’t have an equivalent one-click alias generator like Apple. It does support plus …
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Your Gmail inbox is probably drowning in subscription emails right now. Shopping deals, newsletters, app notifications, and promotional messages pile up faster than you can delete them. Gmail’s subscription management tool changes that by giving you a central hub to see exactly which senders are flooding your inbox and how often they’re doing it. Instead of hunting through individual emails …
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Unless you’re always on top of what’s going on in your Gmail inbox, there’s a good chance that you’re subscribed to at least a few newsletters that you’ve been meaning to unsubscribe to. While it wasn’t hard to unsubscribe to a single newsletter before, Gmail’s new feature will let you get an overview of your existing subscriptions and bulk unsubscribe …
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Change your Gmail password now — Google warns users. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Update, July 30, 2025: This story, originally published on July 28, has been updated with confirmation of a second Google security update: Gmail passkey and Device Bound Session Credentials announcements are now joined by Project Zero reporting transparency changes. It’s official: Google accounts are under attack, …
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