Help me with an email provider!
Hello, I've been looking into email providers. I'm not an activist, just a regular user concerned over privacy.
I used CTemplar in the past until it shut down. Had a cockli email and although it isn't Google the privacy isn't stellar either. I tried to get into Proton, but being unable to use Thunderbird on he free plan was a massive turn-off for me since I like switching easily between different accounts.
After a bit of searching the following came across for me as the best services: [free] Autistici, PARANOID, Disroot. [paid] Posteo, Elude.
Assuming I theoretically got invites for all the free services (they're all reliant on manual approvation), which one would you recommend?
@edit: After reading a bit on the free services, I decided that I will choose them in a Disroot > Autisci > PARANOID order of priority,
I'm not sure what the official advice is but, I've been pretty happy with Proton Mail. They have a free and several tiers of paid options.
I missed the line about proton. I've seen others be successful with thunderbird but idk there may be some breaking things going on.
Can't sign up to their services completely anonymous, if you try to sign up using Tor/VPN it requires SMS confirmation, a previous email (and they block temp addresses) or a donation. Suspicious. There's also some iffy stuff on how they encrypt your emails.
Also, in their old ToS (pre-2022 update):
And where this data goes?
Sure, this was an old ToS. New ToS:
Still unremovable telemetry not totally anonymized. Now they aren't even clear on what those analytics are, aside from:
Yeah, can assume they're collecting the same things as before.
Ugh I didn't know it went that direction so fast. Thanks for this.
I use Austici because users can have 5 alias addresses, you can delete one and create a new alias, but has a limit 5.
Nobody has my true address, my main address, 100% everyone I email or give out my address are all different aliases. If one alias gets too much spam I delete and make a different one so spam doesn't reach my inbox.
Form all the services I picked tutanota. They have their values and you have to pay a little bjt overall they seem likeca solid company.
Proton Mail, Tutanota or Skiff would be my recommendations.
Nowadays my daily e-mail provider is Skiff.
Can’t link to Thunderbird but that’s the price to pay for E2EE. Personally I’m fine with that but I understand that my needs are different from every other person.
Proton retains your data definitively, and although it is encrypted, they're the ones who generate your encryption key as well. If they want to act maliciously, they are totally able to. Also can't register using a VPN or Tor without giving personable identifiable info. Tutanota has the second problem as well.
Skiff collects the pages you visited before using their webmail - creepy:
Pages you visited in Skiff ecosystem.
They don’t know you visited Lemmy before accessing Skiff. But they will know you visited Skiff Drive before you visited Skiff Mail.
Nope, pages outside Skiff too.
Source?
They removed that from the ToS but before it was very much there. They still kept this:
I have used mailbox.org before migrating to my own server. Pretty solid.
Mailbox or Migadu
Comments on Migadu? I'm looking to migrate from Mailbox after they announced their new price schemes.
It's a good service, you should give it a try!
I like Posteo a lot. It's reliable, has the features I require, and the price is more than fair. It might not meet strict privacy requirements of some individuals but it works for me.
Can second what /u/GreatWhiteBuffalo41 said. I've been a free user of ProtonMail for years now, since they're beta years. Their service is solid. Their development cycle may be S L O W but their product is fucking STABLE.
In my post itself I said why I'm leaving Proton...
You're right. You did. Sorry about that. I didn't have enough money for the Not-Oblivious-As-Fuck™ DLC package.