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How about stopping using Gmail then?

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Aside from the issue here, and the PRIVACY mess, it's the best thing since email was invented.

Availability, universally accepted, free (to the product: you), large storage, easy to use.

There is no serious competition, and I say this as a Hotmail user since well before Larry and Sergey opened their doors.

I have a vanity domain which MX's to Gmail so I can move it to another service _when_ they bumrush me, but I don't want to have that happen so I keep my account in good standimg.

Other than self-hosting or a paid service, do you have a suggestion for an alternative?

I know I'm not the OP, but I'm genuinely interested in this.

I don't know about good free alternative with support etc. That's also why I'm paying ~50$/year for a mailserver hosting - I've moved from gmail to just that and so far I'm quite happy.

Maybe someday I will spin up my mailserver also, but for now this is quite good balance between convenience & price for me.

AS far as I'm concerned, the best thing since email was invented is Fastmail. The non-monetary costs of using gmail over a longer period are far higher than paying money for Fastmail. Most importantly, I know I can rely on my email.

Dunno about you all, but I refuse to leave my email on American servers. Privacy doubleplusungood.

Switching from a 0.028% probability to 0.0028% isn’t worth more hassle than just having ads every day, all the time.

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