One thing to consider is the possibility of using multiple separate e-mail accounts from different providers. Currently i have about 10 different e-mail accoun

One thing to consider is the possibility of using multiple separate e-mail accounts from different providers. Currently i have about 10 different e-mail accounts: - one for development related things and communities - one for newsletters, various online platforms and so on - one for throwaway purposes, lower importance things like video game accounts - one for university related things (it stayed after graduation) - a few separate accounts (and corresponding Google account) for various phones or other devices, as necessary - some standby accounts if i ever need them, some from different providers to check mail denylisting - a personal address that's mostly for contacts through my website or my self-hosted automation messages There are some others, as well as each platform for automation has a separate account as well (e.g. GitLab, Zabbix, Nextcloud, ...), though most of those are on the same self-hosted mail server. Of course, deciding how to structure everything is one's own choice, in my case it's just historical cruft and loosely defined boundaries of how much i care about any particular item. That said, mail servers that are easy to set up are a godsend (for example: https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver), as long as you also have one of the larger walled garden alternatives for public communications, should there ever be delivery problems. It's not like Google deciding to ban all of my accounts at once (though fingerprinting, or based on IP because i don't care to set up some sort of an advanced proxy to access all of them from different VPNs) wouldn't be problematic, but this way at least the impact would be minimized. Plus, with software like Thunderbird and something like KeePass for strong randomly generated passwords, managing everything is really low effort. Of course, this also lends itself nicely to avoiding social logins and creating a separate e-mail based account wherever applicable, for a bit more control, rather than keeping all of your eggs in the same basket. As for those who will inevitably say that this is too hard or complicated to be practical: i invite you to try setting up your own mail server with the help of the provided link on a 5$/month VPS, things have really improved in the last few years! Of course, creating new Google accounts (or for other platforms) might be a bit more cumbersome with modern verification steps etc., but it's not like it's impossible either. Sometimes i wish we could do the same for personal identities, e.g. a list of aliases that could be issued through some government org. for particular purposes and revoked as necessary. For example, i wouldn't want a leak of some shopping site result in my personal data being compromised in regards to my online banking or my physical address, in any capacity whatsoever.