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Did you consider protonmail? If so, why fastmail?
by newbear 9y ago
Did you consider protonmail? If so, why fastmail?
- j_s 9y agoThis discussion last month includes many anecdotes regarding various email providers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15029186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15029186
- macintux 9y agoI can only speak for my own decision-making process, but I like to pay for my email so that I have greater confidence that the provider will still be in business 10 years from now, and more confidence that my data is my own. Really like Fastmail.
- newbear 9y agoHow does paying ensure the data is your own?
- admiralpumpkin 9y agoYou're the customer, not their product.
- newbear 9y agoBut the data is still not in your control. Right?
- endemic 9y agoPaying means that the provider doesn't have to mine your email for keywords in order to display targeted ads (yeah, I know Google theoretically stopped doing this recently). So perhaps "your own" in the sense that another entity isn't accessing it.
- eh78ssxv2f 9y ago> So perhaps "your own" in the sense that another entity isn't accessing it. Do they have a spam filter? If yes, how do they filter emails without accessing it?
- SAI_Peregrinus 9y agoProtonmail has paid plans.