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"Trusted" eMail Providers? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 hours ago by nefarioushoneybee@lemmy.zip to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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I switched from Gmail to Proton, but now with everything coming out about Proton I'm switching from them too. I started using Posteo which I like but a lot of my accounts having to do with money and finance (including my bank) aren't accepting the Posteo email. They have rejected it over and over and even locked me out stating that I was hacked.

Do you guys have any recommendations for email providers to use that also won't send red flags to my more official accounts?

If it helps, I'm US-based.

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[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They don't get ad revenue, and they don't have a huge percent of paid users, so by expanding its offerings, they can attract note paid customers, and now businesses-which will both support their free tier customers. I'm happy they didn't "enshittify" and drop free or go ad based.

Idk about the right wing thing, but if they're outside the US, their "right wing" is probably far different than the maga extreme here. understand that's all propaganda by the left and billionaire class, and the amount of actual Trump supporters is small.

I'm not at all supporting Trump either by this comment it's usually the billionaires who own the ads, the media, and keep everyone busy with "left vs right" or black vs white so we don't look "up" at the wealthy who control everything making our real problems.

[–] nefarioushoneybee@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Oh yea honestly for a bit there I was pretty happy to be using a more privacy-friendly suite. But after a while it just kind of started feeling a bit too familiar to our "do no evil"-removing google and I got uncomfortable.

Totally, not every country's "right-wing" is the same. But unfortunately they have been very open about their support for Trump and many other questionable people. I feel like their interests greatly contradict their model for privacy. It's a lil spooky.

I believe in this sub there is another post showing Proton's official response to their latest controversy which has ultimately led to my decision.

But I will miss the convenience of their suite. I do view their products as pretty solid.

[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Their suite of apps directly competes with Google's and their webmail does feel very familiar compared to Gmail. But that's where similarities end. So far, being non-US based of the biggest factor as well as offering a site of trustworthy apps that function well.

Unless that changes (with privacy), I'm OK with it being bigger and popular. It's also A LOT easier to convince friends and family to switch to something "branded" vs indie Dev or get them to install something from Github. It gives the general population a sense of trust, smaller/lesser known apps can do.

[–] nefarioushoneybee@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

And that is all completely fine for you to choose for yourself. Would be nice to see a mass migration away from google to proton over all of the blind support google gets.