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For those of us that can, we must vote with our dollars. To divorce ourselves from Google is expensive and painful, but to ignore it is catastrophe
by tipsysquid 7y ago
For those of us that can, we must vote with our dollars. To divorce ourselves from Google is expensive and painful, but to ignore it is catastrophe
- clairity 7y agobut it's not expensive. there are other free email services, or you can pay for decent email hosting for a few bucks a month.
- thih9 7y agoCould you post examples? In my opinion free email services either belong to other big corporations or provide lower quality service than gmail. Few bucks a month add up and can be considered expensive by many. I don’t like google and I pay for a different email account. I just wanted to remind that gmail may be hard to quit and that costs are subjective.
- skrause 7y agoI use https://mailbox.org/en/ https://mailbox.org/en/, it's from a small German company and I can use my own domain with the smallest plan for just 1 € per month. Their spam filter also seems pretty good.
- tpetry 7y agoUntil the day you get german spam mails because all spam filter are trained for english mails. Had to add a few keywords to tune the spam filter.
- vbezhenar 7y agoIf you're not paranoid about Russia, you might consider Yandex Connect. It supports custom domains and has free tier with ads in the web interface.
- tkel 7y agohttps://thatoneprivacysite.net/email-comparison/ https://thatoneprivacysite.net/email-comparison/
- telesilla 7y agoProtonmail is my choice, it supports client-side encryption. Custom domain $5 a month - unlike Google you are not paying with your private data. https://protonmail.com https://protonmail.com
- realusername 7y ago> Few bucks a month add up and can be considered expensive by many. I pay around 3$/month for Fastmail, I don't think it's expensive, an email address is the primary communication method everyone uses nowadays and it's useful every day.
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- LaurentS 7y agoI have all my mailboxes with gandi.net. Each domain you buy from them comes with 2 fully managed emails, and I think 3GB storage each, for just over $1/month. I basically never get spam, nor blocked emails. They have 2 webmail interfaces too, but I don't use them. As a bonus, gandi financially supports a ton of open source projects, which never hurts.
- petre 7y agoGoog luck with that, Gmail is free. We could probably start to divert all gmail and outlook originating mail to the spam folders on our mail servers in retaliation.