Comment on leaving google
to_urcite_ty_kokos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What are you not sure about the Android telemetry? Or what problems in this field do you expect without a Google account?
And also courious, what type of signing does Gmail provide that others don’t? You mean PGP or S/MIME?
doggoloko@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I dont know what I can do about android without break and about gmail its signed in everywhere that I used like steam, and every other important app that you can think, and tutanota is good but mostly paid(I think so)
glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Skiff is another option to replace Gmail, it has 10 Gb free storage.
For Android check out this website: www.privacyguides.org/en/android/#operating-syste…
merde@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
phase out Google account sign-in slowly by signing in to those accounts with an email address instead. It takes weeks maybe, but then you’re free. A password manager like keepass helps
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I’m still on gmail. It’s one of the few services I genuinely think google is still doing correctly.
A good way to switch, though, would be to get another email address, then link it to gmail, or gnail to it (via smpt and pop3/imap) and slowly start swithing all your stuff while using both for while.
I still have two pre-gmail inboxes routes ilto my gmail this way, they never get mail anymore, but you don’t need to entirely cut those inboxes off.
CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 11 months ago
“Still doing correctly”? They are very generous with their space allowance and you gotta wonder why. I haven’t read the privacy policy, but I wouldn’t be surprised if every email you receive, everything you buy, every account you own is feeding into advertising profiles about you as a user.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
It definitely is. That was the deal you made to use gmail, that’s been the case since the start. The user agreement is very up front about that.
What I mean is, is that where gmail is concerned, that trade is still one I’m willing to make. It provides enough for me to agree to hand over the snapshot of me that is my email traffic.
With chrome, not so much. Chrome does very little to provide me with some kind of value other browsers dont, and yet it asks for everything I do online. Not just the account confirmation messages I use my email to receive. Gmail can see if I have pornhub account. Chrome can log every webpage I’ve ever opened. There’s a difference.
Email is central for all online activity, and google is really good at it, and provides it for “free”, at a rate that’s “competitive”.
A lot of googles other services, very much aren’t.