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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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 30 Aug 2023
Read this first
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/avoid-being-spammed
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @btcEnthusiast OP 30 Aug 2023
Thanks! I didn't know about the existence of aliases.
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31 sats \ 6 replies \ @03365d6a53 30 Aug 2023
protonmail is good.
set it up with your own domain, so you can migrate in the future should you wish
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1 sat \ 5 replies \ @momboteq 30 Aug 2023
protonmail cooperates with police
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @03365d6a53 30 Aug 2023
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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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @momboteq 30 Aug 2023
yes I know but it is not suitable for illegal things😅
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @mallardshead 31 Aug 2023
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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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @momboteq 31 Aug 2023
idk but I do know that a certain hacker was arrested thanks to protonmail
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @03365d6a53 31 Aug 2023
I guess he wasn't a very good hacker then
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @momboteq 30 Aug 2023
self hosted email server
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @btcEnthusiast OP 30 Aug 2023
I have nowhere to host it
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15 sats \ 2 replies \ @faradayfedora 30 Aug 2023
Proton has a super easy Gmail migration, sets up forwarding and imports existing messages, contacts and calendars
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @btcEnthusiast OP 30 Aug 2023
Thank you! The biggest problem is transferring accounts
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @scottathan 30 Aug 2023
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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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Spiralnebel 30 Aug 2023
Proton Unlimited that has SimpleLogin Alias included + haveibeenpwned and Passwort Manager
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @final 30 Aug 2023
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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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mallardshead 31 Aug 2023
Protonmail's UI/UX is better than Gmail without the privacy concerns. It's free. Check 'em out.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @john_doe 31 Aug 2023
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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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @scottathan 30 Aug 2023
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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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @hueso 30 Aug 2023
Migadu accepts Bitcoin.
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