Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I'm currently on Tuta, because I can't imagine Mail without a free tier. It's run out of Germany(EU). Its 3β¬ a month for the normal tier, free takes away most features. Like Proton, you need to use their (OSS)-Client, for encryption reasons. It's currently growing and I hope they don't go crazy anytime soon.
I was looking at Posteo, but I don't want my entire internet identity to be gone, if I ever can't pay for it.
Fair point
Thank fuck I didn't get that subscription, I was looking into getting a secure mail service. I engaged with people calling proton a CIA honeypot, investigating what was up with the rumors and I was about to jump into bed with proton.
Just looking for a free alternative..
I've said it in another thread: German users should consider posteo as a green, safe, and affordable (1β¬/M) alternative. https://posteo.de/de
Never used it. Is there a reason why you mention German users, in specific?
It's not limited to German users, but those might be especially inclined since it's a Berlin-based company π
No, anyone can use it, payed plans only though (1β¬ p month min)
Remember when businesses stayed the fuck out of politics so they didn't alienate their customers because they like money? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Does DisRoot count ? It has a myriad of services that are all FOSS tools Has a "Hub-App" on Fdroid
I swear by Njalla, which is run by Peter Sunde
It seems there aren't any exact replacements, but this probably lists service providers to consider: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/
Yo so question for y'alls: what's your opinion on using custom domain (for portability) vs masked emails?
Rn I have my main emails on my personal domain, and then I have masked emails going through [email protected] for more anonymity + segmenting (err i mean just being able to disable a certain address individually) . But watching all this reminded me that if I decided to move away from fastmail, i'm much more locked-in this way. Do y'alls use a custom domain for masked email as well? The one thing I don't like about that is that it'd be so easy to connect multiple accounts based on domain, so anonymity is probably kinda broken.
I use a custom domain for basically all emails since I care more about portability than anonymity. Each account gets its own address, and if a site gets hacked and I start getting spam then I know which one it was. If I really wanted anonymity for something then I would use a randomly generated masked email.
Trump's terrible politics aside:
the Republican party is pushing legislation which requires you to identify yourself to view porn
you can get around this with a VPN
proton is a VPN (nonprofit, but still).
I'll be switching email providers when I can... I can't remember when my subscription ends.
Abandoning the Proton subscription now. How stupid and irresponsible. In fact, are running away from all your principles.