20231020-geemail_links_suck.txt
I use Geemail (minus the ee). I know; that's the problem right there.
The service has a nasty habit of converting EVERY. SINGLE. LINK. to a
Big G redirect. Every one. Searching for a way to disable this URL
"protection" yielded no immediate helpful results. Normally it's "no
big deal" and some bull shit about "protecting the user" (as if I
needed or asked for it). But for me it's especially frustrating
because I have blackholed the www.g..g...com domain.
So in order to follow these links, I can't use webmail but have to use
some email client. I use Mutt, but it doesn't lend itself well with my
workflow to open links to sites that require JS, especially when it's
some bullshit hashed and salted URL that can't fit in a single tweet
because of all the random characters used. The other way to follow the
links is to edit my hosts file, which is quick enough but ultimately
annoying.
What's worse is that Geemail has decided to redesign their noscript
page to flat out lie and say you NEED JS to open your webmail. Thank
goodness I have visited the site enough and have history turned on
because otherwise I would be unable to access their
perfectly-functioning non-JS frontend. I added the non-JS site as a
bookmark.
A side effect of the blackholing and my very unique setup is that some
sites break. They're very few, but some of them are big. The one that
drives me absolutely nuts that uses something fucking weird is
Dominos. For some reason, I can't sign into their desktop site. I
think they're using some bullshit Big G stuff to verify "humanity"
when ordering, but it makes no sense to me. It allows me to submit my
username and pw then just sits idle like a 4-year-old trying to solve
a calculus problem.
If it wasn't tied to so many services, I might delete the account. But
free unlimited video/photos storage is enough for me right to keep
going.
