I have been lurking around the forum for a while, and you have changed my mind about privacy. I've changed a lot of things, but I'm still left with email. Which private email should I choose, and is there any advice on moving accounts from Gmail to a new email?
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Thanks! I didn't know about the existence of aliases.
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protonmail is good.
set it up with your own domain, so you can migrate in the future should you wish
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protonmail cooperates with police
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yes, like every legal business
the difference is that there needs to be an actual, justifiable injunction (in Switzerland), and in that case the info revealed is just metadata, not message content
they're quite transparent about this
and it's a world away from using gmail
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yes I know but it is not suitable for illegal things😅
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They don't have anything to give authorities if you use their VPN and pay with BTC. The issue previously was that they logged IP addresses. They won a couple big court cases in Switzerland though regarding this and they don't have to archive any data.
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idk but I do know that a certain hacker was arrested thanks to protonmail
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I guess he wasn't a very good hacker then
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self hosted email server
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I have nowhere to host it
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Proton has a super easy Gmail migration, sets up forwarding and imports existing messages, contacts and calendars
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Thank you! The biggest problem is transferring accounts
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That's gonna be the difficulty for everything unfortunately :(
What I did was keep things that I was okay becoming spam on the gmail account, then changed all the stuff I cared about over to protonmail.
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Proton Unlimited that has SimpleLogin Alias included + haveibeenpwned and Passwort Manager
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I use ProtonMail mix of normal domains and my own personal ones. Never had an issue.
Email as a whole is not designed well, it can't really be private by design and it's mostly used because of people's dependence on it. Secure email services are just services that respect your privacy more than actually give them, because the privacy features are opt-in and provider exclusive, therefore they often need to be used by both the sender and receiver which is unlikely.
Use a solid service like ProtonMail or Tutanota. You could host your own but then you'd need to be totally responsible for it and choose a right hosting provider. Posteo is also good, very transparent and has the best privacy for signup I've seen, but they lack a DMARC policy for some dumb reason.
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Protonmail's UI/UX is better than Gmail without the privacy concerns. It's free. Check 'em out.
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I use Migadu with simplelogin. So I get to use my own domain the easy way, and I believe it costs around $9/year. With simple login I give a proxy address all the time and I stop the spam anytime I want. I think it costs around $10-15/year for unlimited email addresses. I experienced that even governments leak/sell your email address and I end up with unwanted spam (or marketing as they call it) so I highly recommend simplelogin and always hide your real address.
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Never used it but I've heard good things about Fastmail. There's no free version but it gives hundreds of aliases, custom domains, private mail, and a ton of other stuff.
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Migadu accepts Bitcoin.
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