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To whom it may concern, | To whom it may concern, | ||
'''I'd like to kindly ask for you to keep providing the Gmail Basic HTML interface in 2024 onward.''' | '''I'd like to kindly ask for you to keep providing the Gmail Basic HTML interface in February 2024 onward.''' | ||
There are millions of users who use older devices and can't afford to upgrade. The full-featured Gmail is CPU & RAM intensive, which makes it very slow on older laptops. Some older phones don't even support a browser that can use it. | There are millions of users who use older devices and can't afford to upgrade. The full-featured Gmail is CPU & RAM intensive, which makes it very slow on older laptops. Some older phones don't even support a browser that can use it. | ||
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If your data shows that very few people use the Basic HTML interface, it may be because not enough people know about it. | If your data shows that very few people use the Basic HTML interface, it may be because not enough people know about it. | ||
Manufacturing is one of the biggest contributors to [[climate change]], and old electronics still end up [[e-waste|polluting Africa and Asia]]. When companies fail to support old devices, it just adds fuel to this fire. | Manufacturing new electronics is one of the biggest contributors to [[climate change]], and old electronics still end up [[e-waste|polluting Africa and Asia]]. When companies fail to support old devices, it just adds fuel to this fire. | ||
I'm '''not''' asking for continuous improvements on the HTML interface. I'm just asking to keep it '''available'''. | |||
The cost of providing it is probably far less than the extra bandwidth that the full-featured Gmail uses anyway. | The cost of providing it is probably far less than the extra bandwidth that the full-featured Gmail uses anyway. | ||
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==Where to send this== | ==Where to send this== | ||
{{ | '''Within Gmail''' | ||
* Open your Gmail {{light|(Standard View, not the Basic HTML version)}} | |||
* Click on the "Support" button {{light|(might be a circle with a question mark)}} | |||
* Select "Send feedback to Google" and then click "Suggest an idea". A text box will appear. | |||
* {{light|Feel free to copy the letter from this wikipage, paste it}} into that text box, {{light|and don't forget to replace the last line with your first name.}} | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Code bloat]] | * [[Code bloat]] |