{"id":29,"date":"2020-07-31T11:41:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookmarkee.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:41:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:11:40","slug":"gmail-popular-email-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookmarkee.com\/blog\/gmail-popular-email-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Gmail the most popular email service?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was recently going through the new sign-ups for this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookmarkee.com\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online bookmarking service<\/a> and was amazed to see <strong>more than 95% sign-ups<\/strong> are with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gmail<\/a> account. Has Gmail surpassed all other email providers by such a huge margin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I can understand that most of the people <strong>sign-up<\/strong> with a free email account fearing that we may spam them (which we don\u2019t as the existing users can tell you), this statistic did come to me as a big surprise. <strong>Do you agree that Gmail is now the most popular email service<\/strong> or you or you can think of some other reason why I am seeing so many sign-ups with gmail.com addresses?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Added later<\/strong>: You may also look at <a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hey.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hey<\/a>, a new email service launched by Jason Fried of Basecamp fame. Excellent spam protection features \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently going through the new sign-ups for this online bookmarking service and was amazed to see more than 95% sign-ups are with a Gmail account. Has Gmail surpassed all other email providers by such a huge margin? While I can understand that most of the people sign-up with a free email account fearing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookmarkee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookmarkee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookmarkee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookmarkee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookmarkee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookmarkee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookmarkee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookmarkee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookmarkee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookmarkee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}