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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

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.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
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Which free email host would you recommend? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to change my main email. I'm using gmail right now. Which free email host do you trust and recommend? Hopefully one that I can open from the phone and the desktop, instead of from the web.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I think you are forgetting that

We are on c/privacy, this is important to OP
Most services today will send you an email to verify account changes, while (almost always) not impossible, it's a pain in the ass to recover your account for every single service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

It was imoortant to OP that it's free and has a client. You may assume that it's privacy respecting but owning your own domain doesn't increase your privacy. You will standout and every mail send to @XY.Z is an email to you.

If privacy is important, use PGP or selfhost your email. But the amount of work that is needed is not worth the trouble for an average person.

The chance that you need to recover your account us so tiny that you can neglect it. And if you know that you're doing shady stuff withyour email account, just selfhosting won't be enough either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

The domain does not provide extra privacy, but it does not ditch extra privacy also. [email protected] vs [email protected] are two emails addressed to you, but no one knows who you are.

Rather, it provides a framework to be a digital nomad, switching email providers at a whim while not needing to do account recovery. An @protonmail can't do that.

In the later half

I essentially read the "what's the point of privacy if you have nothing to hide" argument. I don't do drugs or run a torrent tracker.

mistakes do happen and especially with services featuring a free tier, they have so many users they don't have time to double check their actions or care about providing good support. I already provided two examples of pretty notable people getting banned from Google for unknown reasons and still not being able to get their account back.

Closer to home, let's look at Lemmy. As it's still small, the admins interact with the users and think twice before banning. Reddit on the other and is the opposite, because they quite literally have a million times more people to worry about.