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Perhaps it is time to export all your emails and start forwarding any new emails to a backup email service. As well as backup any documents regularly to another
by izzydata 7y ago
Perhaps it is time to export all your emails and start forwarding any new emails to a backup email service. As well as backup any documents regularly to another service or personal drive.
As far as opening a google checking account goes I think I will be avoiding that one. Diversifying my critical online services might in some sense be a higher security risk, but safer from it all being wiped out in one go.
- tracker1 7y agoAgreed... been giving more and more time for thought on how I want to handle this myself.
- vorpalhex 7y agoI've already setup a domain in front of Protonmail so I have email under my control. My next step is to use an email client to fetch all my emails under IMAP so I have them outside of any cloud service.
- bad_user 7y agoFastmail's import tool worked well for me and I have a big archive.
- jschwartzi 7y agoI'm working on this right now. Google's level of control over my ability to communicate online is really scary. If I lost my gmail account because of a perceived TOS violation I would lose access to many of my accounts, and have to go through a huge inconvenience of going to physical stores, calling during business hours and submitting ID, etc. to reset passwords. If I had known back in 2002 what I know now about what Google would become I never would have joined the Gmail beta.
- xvector 7y ago> If I had known back in 2002 what I know now about what Google would become I never would have joined the Gmail beta. 100% agreed. It was cool at the time. Now Google has so fundamentally changed and I don’t trust them with my data anymore, but it is a Herculean task to move everything off Gmail. Literally hundreds of accounts are bound to my Gmail.