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You can start by creating a email at tuta or proton. It does not have to be 100% overnight

Tuta is just horrible, often rejecting account creation altogether. AtomicMail.io is a nice free alternative to Proton.

What's nice about AtomicMail.io? I just tested it with https://www.emailprivacytester.com and it leaked my IP and when I read the email. And I can't even find an option to turn off remote content loading, which has been a standard feature of email and webmail clients for privacy reasons for decades, and should be turned to off by default.

Thanks for your perspective. I've been using tuta since a year now. Nothing to report

Tuta is pathetic because it asked for my real name, ID verification, and real phone number, altogether defeating the point of anonymity. When I refused to provide identification, it disabled and deleted the new registration. This makes it as bad as Discord.

Perhaps you have a grandfathered account, but times have changed for the worse with Tuta alone.

Han. My only grippe was having to install a app. None of the rest.

but then you send a mail to $person, and this $person uses gmail, and now your mail is still indexed by google.

The only way to get around this is to use encryption. dont send plain text email.

And if the recipient uses a Chrome extension to handle the decryption... Google still has access to the cleartext. There's no winning.

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