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You Can't Trust Google

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This is the same guy who made Google take down an open source free demo app because the demo was as good as his whole paid for service. https://m.slashdot.org/story/99766

Yeah, I can't trust Google, but I'm not going to listen to this guy about it.

I am really worried about Gmail. I am stuck to it and I do not know a decent alternative. Every other service has an apple equivalent and I can live without. iCloud email exists but I do not know how good it is.

Proton is almost there. I actually prefer their web app to Gmail. The only things stopping me from fully endorsing it atm is the lack of a good Android app (current one doesn't have threaded emails) and no snooze. The app situation is supposed to be resolved sometime this year. Tbd on snooze though. They do have scheduled delete right now so not sure what the hold up is on that.

Just run your own mail server on a Pi at home and get your ISP to set up a PTR record for you, assuming you are on a static IP. Mox is good and outputs all of the instructions for DNS etc.:

https://github.com/mjl-/mox

Go to Fastmail and don't look back.

Yep. Switched from a Gsuite account, or whatever it was, years ago and have never once missed it. Fastmail is awesome.

Ditto, been using it for many years and recommend it!

People say this a lot, and generally I agree. All services are taken for granted, and eventually they will go away. Doubly so for things starting in G and ending in Oogle.

That being said, I trust transparent Open Source contributions just fine. Google makes a lot of those, Hey seems to manufacture blogposts.