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On any new device I normally do the same thing each time: 1) Install Firefox Nightly 2) Install uBlock Origin add-on 3) Enable Duck Duck Go as default search
by novaRom 8y ago
On any new device I normally do the same thing each time:
1) Install Firefox Nightly
2) Install uBlock Origin add-on
3) Enable Duck Duck Go as default search engine
4) Enjoy
I am still looking for a good replacement for Gmail.
- kokx 8y agoSo far, I really like ProtonMail as a gmail replacement. Their web interface is great. It costs quite a bit more money though (compared to free gmail). I've been using it for half a year now, and the only gmail features I miss (their spam filtering and automatically prioritizing mails) are those that require them to read your mail. Which I like that they cannot.
- bproven 8y agoHow do you get around not being able to search email in protonmail? At least in the web client which is all I use in gmail.
- kokx 8y agoYou can actually search quite well in ProtonMail. Though it only searches some email headers (title, sender, receiver etc) and tags. Those are not stored encrypted. But it doesn't search the body of your emails.
- bproven 8y agoyea- that is what I meant - you couldnt search email bodies.
- EpicEng 8y ago>But it doesn't search the body of your emails. Which is a massive limitation.
- kokx 8y agoIt is a limitation indeed. I'm not missing it a lot actually. But if you really need it, you can use the ProtonMail Bridge together with your favorite email client. For me the tradeoff of having my emails stored encrypted by default without much hassle is worth it.
- atacama 8y agogmail has been easy for me. Do you absolutely need the (nice I admit) web ui? I thought I did until I completely switch to using mails clients (mail on macOS and iPhone). I don't miss gmail at all! I realise how long it took to check my email before. I'm using Mailbox.org btw. Cheap, lots of aliases, exchange server etc ... I switched 10 months ago and I don't regret.
- mar77i 8y agocurrently moving away from google to protonmail. And they were at least working on a VPN service too, last time I checked.
- josefresco 8y agoI use GMail for the stability, longevity and ubiquitous access.
- nasredin 8y agoUntil they lock your account even if you know the password... Some people are OK with giving their PII like phone numbers to them, then Google is a good choice for them. For me, it is not. Their schizophrenic registration system that SOMETIMES demands your phone number was the last straw.
- josefresco 8y agoFree Gmail or paid? I use both, the paid for important things.
- dredmorbius 8y agoProtonmail.
- Rjevski 8y agoOffice 365?
- neogodless 8y agoAh ha, an expert. So I've recently been using Firefox, uBlock and DDG. A few sites, including DDG take a super long time to load. It gives me the TLS handshake message for a while before eventually loading. How can this be fixed?
- Seirdy 8y agohttps://duckduckgo.com/lite https://duckduckgo.com/lite If you miss the dark DDG theme: https://userstyles.org/styles/95276/duckduckgo-lite-dark https://userstyles.org/styles/95276/duckduckgo-lite-dark
- benhardy 8y agoFastMail is pretty excellent, particularly if you like running mail off your own domains with Gmail-style wildcard address support and really fancy DNS. You get what you pay for.
- auslander 8y ago1) Safari, preferences - check 'open with new private window' 3) Enable Bing as default search engine iCloud email