from TrickDacy@lemmy.world to degoogle@lemmy.ml on 23 Oct 15:36
https://lemmy.world/post/53498868
I have a long list I made a while ago of things I need to do to divorce myself from Google. It’s super daunting and I’ve been procrastinating. Last night Google requested a video of my face when logging in. It didn’t require it but it’s only a matter of time before that or something else awful gets added as a condition of using their service. I’m now ready to start my email transition elsewhere. It’s probably one of the bigger steps so it may give me momentum to do the other steps also.
I have seen a million guides and gmail replacement options, but I’m curious what the latest opinions on email services are. I currently lean toward proton and I’m willing to pay, but again, there are so many options and pro/cons to different companies and services it is overwhelming. Any info I can get will be helpful in choosing an email service. Thanks everyone.
Update: I’ve taken the very first step and started forwarding my Gmail to a proton email account. One thing I just thought of is that my android phone currently uses contacts synced from my Google account automatically. Does anyone know a way to replicate that with proton?
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Better get started while you still have access to the old email, it’ll be easier this way.
Configure GMail to forward everything into your new email (use an alias like trickdacy.gmail@example.com) and set up filters on the receiving side to stuff incoming gmails into a separate folder. Anything that lands there is either spam, or something you forgot and need to transition away. Keep this running indefinitely, it’ll work even after GMail won’t allow you to log in anymore.
I run my own email server, but this is not for everyone.
Proton and Tutamail are both nice imo.
I got my gmail account in the year 2001. If they ever ask me for any kind of age verification, that will be the day I delete it all. What they’re doing isn’t about protecting kids or age verification at all. Its about surveiling every nuance of every person’s life in order to extract the most possible profit from it.
I’ve migrated over to Proton, but haven’t quite finished migrating accounts I never log into yet to my current email. About 90% of the email they goes to my gmail account now is for other people that share my name and inadvertently made accounts with my email address. I know of at least four distinct individuals that have used my gmail address for personal and professional accounts and group emails.
The most interesting one was a prototype formula for a new toothpaste that was being discussed.
EUvetted.com might be able to help you decide. And privacytools.io.
I’m using www.posteo.de
+1 for Posteo. Only costs 1 € per month with 4 GB of storage. The only drawback is, it doesn’t support custom domains.
Something to consider: we’re partly here because one entity (Google) said it could do it all. Consumers then realised they had no power at all; they had voluntarily subjugated themselves to that one entity that could do it all. Then it started doing things that made them squirm in their seats like recommending who to bomb for the Americans and how to efficiently commit genocide to the Israelis.
How about you pick up a pen and an address book. You’ll then have a decentralised and offline address book. Portable between Android, iPhone, Linux, Windows and no-phone-at-all! Contact lists are high-value to intelligence-organisations and I wouldn’t use any digital offering.
B-b-but I’m just a consumer in the imperial-core and want convenience.
You found a way to turn degoogling into something you could insult. Almost impressed.
Right?? They turned the condescending prick dial up to 11
Edit: oh also, I jumped on the Proton bandwagon. It makes it easy to use aliases too, I never give out my email anymore, just an alias that forwards to my main account.