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reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
I dont even mind this too much yet still I want to switch off from gmail. If google decided to suspend my account for some reason I would be completely fucked. Even if you love google you still should switch off from using their services because there is a chance you might lose access to them in the future if this world goes even more off its rocker.
nicerdicer@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
You should look into this
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reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Aye, I have looked through this too: european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/gmail
Unfortunately every service seems to have something going on that I dont like or they dont have something I want. Maybe I should just be less discerning. It doesnt help that switching is a lot of effort and bother. I took a look at disroot but i heard about that too that there are some things about it that make it not useable to me, like them storing the mails unencrypted apparently. Proton might be good, but after everything i have heard about that too i fear it might develop more problems later which would just have me switch again. Tuta might be good, but I have heard about that one too that they like sending ads about their services you cant opt out so that kind of attitude doesn’t sit well with me. Not even google does that. Others can’t be used for free or are too obscure.
kmail on your list wasnt on the site i looked at, maybe that one is good one. At least it seems good enough at quick glance.
nicerdicer@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Yes, all these email services want you to pay up for them. I think this is the price tag for privacy.
I have switched to Mailbox org a couple of years ago. I had a freemail provider before that. Unfortunately, this providers’ data got leaked, and therefore I got pwned, luckily only resulting into a tsunami of spam. The entry-tier with Mailbox is 1 € per month (= 12 € per year) which is compareably cheap in my opinion. Of course, it depends on what features you desire - more features cost more money. They also offer a free trial for 30 days (but it is wise to start the free trial at the begin of a month, as far as I recall).
The process of switching the email provider took me at least 6 months, where both the old and the new email adress have to exist simulatiously.
If you need to register quickly to an online service, i can recomend Temp-Mail org. Its free, but you need to have the tab opened for the registration process, as all data (including the free temporary email adress) will be deleted. I used this service to register with my home instance, because back then I didn’t want to expose my real email adress.