Gmail is finally looking to get rid of one of its more embarrassing restrictions, and let people choose new email addresses.
Ever since it was first introduced, more than 20 years ago, Google has required that people keep the email address that they first signed up with on their Gmail account. The only way to get a new email address is to set up a whole new account – but that can come with a whole host of other problems, such as losing access not only to email data but associated services that use that account to login, such as YouTube.
