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I am asked for Gmail (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by Newhere@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hey everyone, can you please help me what to do- I don't have and don't use anything from Google. Now for school I am asked to provide Gmail. Is there way out ? What else, maybe some other email provider is compatible with school emailing system, because now teacher must use her personal email to email me and she is not happy at all...

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[–] bananapinball@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Google Classroom is generally managed by the School's IT. Your setup is strange if they request public gmail account and not internal account in the school tenant.

Your teacher is correct in not being happy. Giving their personal email to a student is... problematic
Remember that your privacy is already breached when a 3rd party in the communication is using gmail
Simply create a burner gmail account and do not use that for anything else than inside your school's google ecosystem

[–] moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 2 points 6 days ago

Have you ever tried to make a google account? If they somehow let you create one, they ban you from your own account within some months/years.

This is definitely not a solution. You need something that won't lock you out from your school/work at the whim of some broken automated false-positive from an evil company with no way to contact support

[–] StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

How do you get a burner account without a phone number?

[–] grey_maniac@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Or any teacher should be perfectly capable of setting up a throwaway account for teaching work, just like some are recommending the student do. Every piece of friction with data fascists is a positive gain for everyone else. It's the people opting for low friction who are greasimg the rails for fascists of all stripes.