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I use gmail because it has this obscure addon thing that shows the number of unread emails in the favicon. Default gmail and all other email providers I have tried show the unread emails count in the title which is invisible on pinned tabs.

I have three email accounts outside of gmail that are forwarding to gmail so I can have a favicon counter. Those email accounts maintain their own copies of the emails. If gmail were to lock me out I would lose my favicon counter. I would need to get a new phone number to create a new account and set up the fowards to the new address.

Why do I insist on this convoluted setup? My previous email client was a firefox addon that showed me that counter and it made me read my emails. Every email account that doesn't follow this set up that I have has lots of unread emails.

I have a thunderbird instance with 140 unread emails open right now. I have 0 on gmail.



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