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I use google and have chosen to give up a lot of my privacy to use their services. One thing I was never willing to do though, and I had an instant emotional r
by feelix 10y ago
I use google and have chosen to give up a lot of my privacy to use their services.
One thing I was never willing to do though, and I had an instant emotional reaction to not doing, was allowing them access to all my email.
They can have my GPS coordinates at all times, my web search history, etc, but they can't get into the inner workings of my life and my thoughts.
So back before I had any real use for it I just registered myname@myfirstandlastname.com and used that for my email address. It felt like a natural move. It does bother me still that a lot of the people I email do use gmail, so google still ends up siphoning of a lot of the contents of my email.
I see a lot of people talking about FastMail instead of GMail, but I don't know why more geeks don't register their own domain name which has several advantages (including looking better and more professional). The one downside is that mail search sucks. I'd love to get some decent search without giving up privacy somehow.
- jjawssd 10y ago+1 for fastmail. lots of domains to choose from and i also use my own personal domain for email
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoFastMail has incredibly good domain name configuration for custom domains. I just set it up this week. The problem is most users don't have the skill or time to manage a well-maintained email service. I'd like to, but the risk of losing important email is too critical to risk. (Even making the cutover to FastMail, I was super nervous!) And unlike Google, FastMail has a strong privacy strategy. But what I did do, about a year ago, was move my email usage over to an address at my own domain, which was then forwarded to Gmail. By lessening the references to my Gmail account, it made it easy to switch elsewhere. ...I just repointed my domain to FastMail's email service. And because I control the domain name people send email to me on, it's easy for me to move it again in the future if I have a problem with FastMail or find something better.
- oridecon 10y agoIf you're being targeted, can you really protect your domain/DNS from all points of attack? And does domain privacy protection really covers all of your personal data, forever? The more I learn the worse I feel about my digital privacy and security. The one thing I do right now is to compartmentalize my accounts and services, but I can't help to think it's only stopping smaller fish from getting/triangulating my data. Tin foil hat apart, I also don't like to give away my data for free.