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I've been trying out Protonmail which I'm happy with, but in practice I'm still using Gmail. I'm reluctant to move away from my @gmail address, and inform all
by jvannistelrooy 9y ago
I've been trying out Protonmail which I'm happy with, but in practice I'm still using Gmail.
I'm reluctant to move away from my @gmail address, and inform all my contacts to use the new one. Besides that, I notice that orally communicating [anything]@gmail.com is much easier than any other domain. I wish I could take my gmail address to another service.
- mysterypie 9y ago> orally communicating [anything]@gmail.com is much easier than any other domain Sure, if you had the foresight to reserve your.name@gmail.com twelve years ago, but today you'll have to use your.name772@gmail.com. Chances are that you won't even get incredibly.obscure.name@gmail.com. However, chances are better for your.name@fastmail.com, your.name@protonmail.com, etc.
- jvannistelrooy 9y agoThat's indeed a good reason to pick another domain. I hope non-gmail domains will become more common because of that. It might lower the barrier to switch for many people.
- MrMember 9y agoI managed to get firstinitiallastname@gmail.com (account created in 2004ish) but for my Proton Mail account I had to add in my middle initial.
- eequah9L 9y agoYep, that one was taken by the dude that couldn't use @gmail, because you already had it ;)
- amcooper 9y agoI switched to Protonmail in November. I'm using the free version now, and it's fine.