First, I believe you're making the wrong assumption that a good replacement is web-based. The web is a poor mechanism interface for accessing email. Use a mail

First, I believe you're making the wrong assumption that a good replacement is web-based. The web is a poor mechanism interface for accessing email. Use a mail client! That will work on PCs, laptops and mobile apps - and you don't depend on your email provider for your usage experience; they all offer IMAP (and many offer POP3). That means you'll have search, labels, elaborate automated filters - including custom actions on your computer, which no web-based interface will offer you (I think). Most email providers do offer a web interface, and some of those are pretty nice, but I'd always consider them a fallback. Anyway, among the popular providers, I am partial to ProtonMail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_Mail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_Mail it's Swiss, run by a non-profit, and originally crowd-funded. Over 100 Million users, IIANM. I am not a cyber-security expert, so I can't claim to have audited them for security or privacy bona fides (but maybe somebody has?). I've also heard suggestions to try Tuta (tuta-nota), but have never tried it myself. There are also many smaller providers. Specifically, many Internet access providers also provider email services. Not that they are super trustworthy, but - there's a good chance you're not just hading everything over to one of the behemoths like Google or Microsoft. If you do end up on one of the bigger providers - it's probably best to be on one that's not linked to the government where you live. So if you're in a NATO country you could go for yandex or mail.ru and if in Russia then maybe GMX? Unfortunately - wherever you take your email - when you write a GMail address, Alphabet has a hold of your correspondence again. So, we need to convince our friends to ditch Google as well.