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What do you use in replacement for GMail?
by gobip 5y ago
What do you use in replacement for GMail?
- benrapscallion 5y agoFastmail and HEY
- mjmj 5y agoHey, too rich for my blood
- irthomasthomas 5y agohttps://www.gmx.com/mail/create-email-address/ https://www.gmx.com/mail/create-email-address/ Or Protonmail.com
- tazjin 5y agoI recently moved to Yandex 360. We previously had DNS, mail etc. on Google until an outage[0] occured. The outage was the classical story of "billing error in related Play Store (!) account nuked entire GCP setup", which diminished trust enough that I decided to move everything away from Google. I'm a Xoogler, but even then getting through to the right support channels is hard. Yandex services are pretty nice (they have an equivalent to most Google things), but even more important for me is that - even on the lowest plan - you can talk to a real human in support within minutes, 24/7. [0]: https://b.tvl.fyi/issues/155 https://b.tvl.fyi/issues/155
- janoc 5y agoUhm, sorry but Yandex of all things? Given that this is a Russian company with Kremlin having a "golden veto" power in? No, thanks. Google may be evil but moving my data from Google to the Russian government spooks is really not a solution.
- tazjin 5y agoYeah. I live in Russia and I trust this government more than e.g. the American one. It's always a matter of perspective.
- enriquto 5y agoI don't get this point of view. If you live in Russia, of all places, you'd likely want to avoid Yandex. On the other hand, for people from non-Russian countries Yandex is probably a better and safer choice than Google.
- tazjin 5y agoI don't really understand your point.
- ori_b 5y agoThe bureaucrats and agents don't cooperate. Your surveillance data ends up locked on the drives of agencies with no power to affect your life.
- vertis 5y agoI don't know about Russia, but this is not really an accurate perception. US laws tend to protect US Citizens and residents. Even citizens of friendly countries like Australia don't have protection. In some ways it's worse because Australia is five-eyes, so they can do a, I'll spy on your citizens you spy on mine kind of thing (which we know from Snowden was exactly what they were doing)[1][2]. [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/us-uk-secret-deal-surveillance-personal-data https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/us-uk-secret-d... [2]: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jun/10/nsa-offers-intelligence-british-counterparts-blunkett https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jun/10/nsa-offers-...
- ori_b 5y agoYes, that's the point of using tools from unfriendly countries -- though I wouldn't be surprised if there's data sharing there, I haven't heard evidence of it.
- oceanplexian 5y agoI worked for LiveJournal, which was owned by a Russian company and what our platform removed for “misinformation” was a nothing compared to what companies like Twitter do today. I know Navalny (A Russian dissident) account is still active whereas platforms like Facebook and Twitter have banned multiple elected US politicians. If you want to avoid censorship the Russian platforms are great places to go.
- belter 5y agoYandex has the best image reverse search algos of all the search engines. Dont take my word for it, just go and try it. If you live in the US what is the most dangerous for you? To be spied by your own government, or a government on the other side of the planet?
- nerdponx 5y agoFastmail
- liveoneggs 5y agohotmail?
- tedivm 5y agoI'm using Fastmail and have been super happy with them. I need to start looking into replacements for business suites though, since clearly Google Suites/Workspaces/Domains (whatever they're calling it this week) is making seriously unethical choices.
- bencollier49 5y agoFastmail is great.
- indymike 5y agoAn good old fashioned IMAP mailbox. It works fine, and my ISP has decent spam controls. Oh, and Fair Email (a client) on Android is awesome. Webmail is really slow when you get 300-400 emails a day that are not spam.
- eirikurh 5y agopurelymail (https://purelymail.com/ https://purelymail.com/) is great! Can't recommend it enough.
- names_are_hard 5y agoThere are many options, as evidenced by the replies here. I've used Zoho for a few years now, no issues.
- nerdjon 5y agoIt may not be perfect, but I switched to MobileMe for my personal email a long time ago and continue to use iCloud. Search is for sure hit or miss, but I pay for it and feel... a bit better. For my "professional" email I use Amazon Workmail with a custom domain.
- kcartlidge 5y agoI've not tried the new option myself so this isn't a recommendation, but if you are using iCloud for personal email yet are doing 'professional' email elsewhere because of the custom domain, then you may not know that iCloud now supports those custom domains. Of course there may be other reasons why you want professional email separate, such as not having it at risk should Apple decide you've broken their T&Cs because poor AI/ML says so, and they close your account.
- nerdjon 5y agoI think at the time I set it up that feature may not exist? It isn't really anything sensitive, really more just when I am interviewing and related activities. But I also want it to be a separate email instead of just an alias which I assume iClouds is. Could be wrong though. Amazon's is just $5 a month so not really a huge drive to change it.
- nullify88 5y agohttps://www.migadu.com/ https://www.migadu.com/