Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out

rocci@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been off Gmail for years and deleted all my Google accounts. Here’s how you can do it, too.

  Step 1: Export your emails from Gmail into an EML file.

  Step 2: Sign up for a new paid email provider: Tuta, Mailbox.org, Proton to name a few.

  Step 3: Import your emails.

  Done.

  Optional Steps (that I recommend):

  1. Buy your own domain name (e.g., YourSurnameEmail.com)
  2. Set up your email provider to use your Custom Domain name. Or alternatively, sign up for a service like Addy.io and use your domain name there to create alias emails.
  3. Go to your domain name manager and add the settings your email provider tells you to use. This will enable your domain name to serve emails.
  4. Start sending and receiving emails using your own custom email address that belongs to you.
  5. Don’t like your email provider after a few years? Simply find a new one. Change your domain name settings to point your domain name to your new email provider. All your email addresses stay with you and you NEVER have to change email addresses again.
  6. Swap every email login you have to use a new alias email. For example, facebook123@yoursurname.com for Facebook, random.word123@yoursurname.com for some web site login, Steam123@yoursurname.com for Steam gaming, etc. Save all credentials to your password manager.

  With this, you now have a unique email address for every single service, and all those alias email addresses forward your email to your actual email address. The benefit is that no one knows your real email address except you. Bye bye SPAM. When an alias email gets leaked or sold, you’ll know which company failed you. Simply swap to a different alias email, and disable the compromised alias - all SPAM stops.

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  • Bloefz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The problem I’ve been seeing with email on my own domain is that some services refuse it, saying “please enter a real email address” 🤬 some others just silently refuse to send a confirmation code so I can’t register either (I think tinder did this)

    And with proton I got “Anonimisation services are forbidden” once at least.

    I forget which services, but it’s Hella annoying…

    The marketshare of Google and Microsoft on email is really becoming a problem.

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  • freebee@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m just replying so I’ll find your comments back easily in a few days

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The biggest issue is all the accounts I have attached to Gmail. Its a lot and I dont know how to move

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    • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One at a time

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    • CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I had the same problem too. Many years ago in December the final weeks when businesses are slow, I painstakingly went through and edited every single one of my accounts one at a time and changed emails. If there was a legacy thing I couldn’t access or a system that wouldn’t let you change your email, then I discarded it. How do you eat a dinosaur? One bite at a time.

      Through my investment in time, all my accounts are managed via the method I commented above. I own my email, and I control how I get contacted.

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• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you’re not already doing so, you probably should use a 3rd party client that can connect to Gmail and filter out spam.

  If you tell us what platforms you use, we can probably provide some recommendations of stuff to explore.

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  • tabloid@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not the one you answered to, but if you have a recommendation for linux and windows please tell.

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• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ohhh I didn’t notice that, well this is enough to finally push me to actually leave. I kept delaying it

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