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I'm moving off gmail today, gonna just register my own domain and set up a server somewhere. I think that and hangouts are the last ways they got me, looking fo

I'm moving off gmail today, gonna just register my own domain and set up a server somewhere. I think that and hangouts are the last ways they got me, looking forward to deleting my account. It's so strange to be old enough to see the same mistakes of the AOL days repeated again at a much larger scale. I don't want your garden, I want my privacy, thanks.

GrinningFool 10y ago
Meta-comment: Your post isn't unreasonable, but it seems your throwaway name killed it for you...
- KirinDave 10y ago
  "isn't unreasonable" but it's a profoundly selfish sentiment. It's almost a given that the people reading this are totally immune to this. We all use adblockers as the default.
nibs 10y ago
Zoho Mail + Personal Domain = Free, No Ads. Company makes money by providing good-enough email product, encouraging you to use their other for-money good-enough SaaS products.
kotajacob 10y ago
Everyone's talking about switching emails, but realistically how difficult do you think it will be. Changing it for all the services you use and informing everyone? Or are you just planning on setting up forwarding for a while... (Asking because I'm trying to make the switch myself)
- jhasse 10y ago
  I've switched to Fastmail and still have my gmail address. It's just another folder and it get's fetched via IMAP. I also added the mail as an identity, so I can still answer to people with my gmail adress. So no need to inform everyone, just use your new address when you're asked.
- hyperdunc 10y ago
  I switched to Fastmail about 2 weeks ago and their POP retrieval feature made it really easy to get all emails from from my old account. I just updated my email address with a service when first using it after making the switch. And I reply to emails from my new address. I was looking into ProtonMail and Riseup as well. There are lots of good alternatives to Gmail.
jrnichols 10y ago
"gonna just register my own domain and set up a server somewhere" ..... only to find that you have problems delivering email to Gmail users, who are everywhere. :/ I experienced this same problem when moving to a new hosting provider and IP set. couldn't sent mail to Google properties/hosted accounts until my IP's email reputation score was high enough to be approved by whatever lurks in Google.

GrinningFool 10y ago

Meta-comment: Your post isn't unreasonable, but it seems your throwaway name killed it for you...

KirinDave 10y ago
"isn't unreasonable" but it's a profoundly selfish sentiment. It's almost a given that the people reading this are totally immune to this. We all use adblockers as the default.

nibs 10y ago

Zoho Mail + Personal Domain = Free, No Ads. Company makes money by providing good-enough email product, encouraging you to use their other for-money good-enough SaaS products.

kotajacob 10y ago

Everyone's talking about switching emails, but realistically how difficult do you think it will be. Changing it for all the services you use and informing everyone? Or are you just planning on setting up forwarding for a while... (Asking because I'm trying to make the switch myself)

jhasse 10y ago
I've switched to Fastmail and still have my gmail address. It's just another folder and it get's fetched via IMAP. I also added the mail as an identity, so I can still answer to people with my gmail adress. So no need to inform everyone, just use your new address when you're asked.
hyperdunc 10y ago
I switched to Fastmail about 2 weeks ago and their POP retrieval feature made it really easy to get all emails from from my old account. I just updated my email address with a service when first using it after making the switch. And I reply to emails from my new address. I was looking into ProtonMail and Riseup as well. There are lots of good alternatives to Gmail.

jrnichols 10y ago

"gonna just register my own domain and set up a server somewhere" ..... only to find that you have problems delivering email to Gmail users, who are everywhere. :/ I experienced this same problem when moving to a new hosting provider and IP set. couldn't sent mail to Google properties/hosted accounts until my IP's email reputation score was high enough to be approved by whatever lurks in Google.