What alternatives do you recommend for someone trying to move away?
I have multiple email accounts. My website hosting company has email service. Fastmail is also good.
ProtonMail is not bad. iCloud works fine with imap (ie mutt, thunderbird) and does custom domains too.
You’d be in the minority.
I'd also be the author of the submitted article.
I admire your work greatly then. I definitely appreciate uncovering this sort of telemetry, but I feel the reaction from some may be a little more Tin-foil-hatted for my taste. I do thank you for doing the work though!
I also applaud you for not using the mainstream thing. That’s good too.
I don't either. My main issue is some of my recipients are so it sadly doesn't help much.