Gmail Users Losing POP and Getting AI Whether We Like It or Not
Personally, I’ve moved away from using the POP feature in Gmail to import mail from other email accounts into Gmail to take advantage of the spam protection. Since I host my own sites and my own M365 tenant, much of that spam protection lives elsewhere for me, but I can understand why others have continued to use it.
Never fear, though. In 2026, Google wouldn’t dare let you have a product that doesn’t feature AI. So, we’re all getting the AI Inbox, and you will have to opt out if you do not want an AI-generated list of to-dos and summaries instead of just reading your email.
Maybe it’ll prove to be an incredibly helpful tool that saves a ton of time.
It could also lead to a world where you don’t even read the email a human being sends you, which was probably written using AI anyway.
Time will tell, and I’m not holding my breath that it’s going to be amazing.
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