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QueLorean·

Does anyone on Hacker News who still uses Gmail expect privacy?

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Never did:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020802023758/http://gmail.com/f...

You're aware that gmail.com was registered to an entity that wasn't Google between its original registration on 1995-08-13 and Google's acquisition of it on 2004-03-31, right?

While looking for that second date, I dug up a piece of spamming + domain hoarding history:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.protocols.tcp-ip....

(Note the date of that post and what domain shows up in his list...)

Does anyone on Hacker News still use Gmail?

Yeah. And I feel bad recommending GMail to friends and family before. Now I tell them to leave it. I should have known.. Right now my Google usage is at almost 0%. (I still use calendar.. for now.)

I expect lots of us use it. There is nothing in my email that the NSA would find remotely interesting. Therefore, there is no practical reason not to use it.

What else would you recommend if you own your own domain? I must have webmail, IMAP, calendar, contact list, task list and seamless sync with mobiles. And be free. And be outside of the US.

Not sure if they already allow having your own domain, but the rest is covered: https://mykolab.com/ based in non-EU country Switzerland. Of course it's not free, but keep in mind: if it's free, you are probably the product being sold.

If you need to use your own domain, set up your own server or VPS and install https://kolab.org/ (it's all listed on https://prism-break.org/)

Absolutely, until there's a viable replacement for it.

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