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This is part of why I chose a paid e-mail service. 1: No ads, ever 2: No reason to sell my data. They already have income, and if users found out they were se
by Night_Thastus 3y ago
This is part of why I chose a paid e-mail service.
1: No ads, ever
2: No reason to sell my data. They already have income, and if users found out they were selling data, they'd quickly bail from it (At least with the service I use, which is aimed more at users with privacy concerns), which would ruin their steady revenue.
3: Actually a reason to IMPROVE the product, because again, users will leave if the competition is better.
Plus, it's not that bad price-wise. I think it comes out to $3 a month for what I do with a yearly sub.
- charcircuit 3y agoHow do you quickly bail from email? It is a lot of effort to switch to a new email. The friction to levave is so high that your points 2 and 3 are not true.
- ydant 3y agoIf you own your own domain name for your email, then it's pretty simple and will take a few hours of effort to get fully moved over. Part of why I pushed myself to move away from Gmail was I was still using the @gmail address occasionally. Luckily, I'd been using my own domains for a long time for most emails, so it's been a pretty easy transition - I still have Fastmail poll Gmail for emails to make sure I see the ones that still go to @gmail.
- TheBozzCL 3y agoThat's easy for tech people... but an insurmountable hurdle for everyone else. I say that as a techie with his own domain.
- tomjen3 3y agoI am in the process of doing that, and my answer has been to move all the things that I can to the new account, and then keep the old one around until nothing more I care about comes there. And you can be I own the domain for the new email. Not going to make that mistake again.
- carlosjobim 3y agoIt is not a lot of effort. You can keep receiving and sending to/from your old e-mail within the new provider for as long as you please.