aboblaProton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party
tabularThis is not an ad enter email to receive emails
I disagree, Mr Website.
asapI used [email protected] without issues.
sunzu2I prefer [email protected]
Also try root@[base URL]
Dr. WeskerI like to look up the website’s customer service email address and use that.
The benefit of example.com is that no one can ever register it, so there’s never a chance of causing additional spam to a genuine domain owner.
I just change it to reader-mode
JessicaI always prefer [email protected]
That’s a good one!
Bahnd RollardJust turn noscript on and the popup doesnt show up.
I’ve been looking in to degoogling and was considering Protonmail. Does anybody know of a good alternative? Espeically one that lets you have multiple email addresses?
astronaut_slothIt’s not the most practical thing in the universe, but I have a small VPS that I host my email on for myself and a couple others (5 addresses in total). It’s a bit of a pain to set up, but once it’s working, it is really nice to have that kind of control.
There are dozens of us!
I think email gets a bad rap for difficulty of hosting. So long as you get your DMARC, DKIM, RDNS, SPF, etc right, it’s reasonably forgiving. Need to take server down for maintenance? No worries- any mail that couldn’t be delivered will be resent in a few minutes/hours/days.
Harder than hosting a simple website? Yes. Rocket surgery? No.
Essence_of_MehIf you only care about email (and calendar, I guess) Tuta is a pretty good choice. I’ve been using it for years and had only one problem very early on. Additional aliases are only available with the paid plan (€3 a month) however, same as Proton I believe.
Yup.
Tuta works well for me for the past year or so, so I recently switched to their annual plan. I used Proton for a couple years (paid plan) and preferred it, but they raised the price so I bailed. The €3 plan from Tuta is more than enough for me.
I’m still on a legacy plan (which still feels like a really good deal despite some small concessions compared to the new plans) but yeah, even with the new prices it’s definitely worth it.
Also, while not strictly email focused but they have a blog with articles about various privacy related topics and news - it’s a pretty neat source of info, especially for those less knowledgeable about this stuff.
Interstellar_1I’ve heard mailbox.org/en/ is good.
Been using it a few years and I’m happy. Best upgrade coming from google is that the calendar actually works with thunderbird.
I have tuta, bitwarden, firefox relay, and libreoffice, seems to work decently. I am also considering getting a mullvald vpn, but not sure how well it works with torrenting, since they no longer support port-forward.
Using Mullvad, I stay connected to it 24/7. I’ve no problems with torrenting. It costs 5€/month. Maybe try it out to see if it’ll suit you as well.
same, my torrent container is connected to Mullvad and works great.
I have my qbittorrent container set up the same way, no issues. Only minor inconvenience I have now is having to manually renew my subscription every month because they stopped storing payment information (good!).
FizzDoes bitwarden have a browser extension for firefox?
Yes they do
Yes. This is also something you could have googled in the time it took to comment.
Yeah true, but then other people who are thinking about making the switch would also have to ask that question or Google. Plus sometimes the browser extensions are exist but are shit. The human recommendation holds more weight.
I bit the bullet this month & bought a domain so I can assign mail handling and change providers without changing my email address. Currently using purelymail.com because they’re $10/year for as many addresses & domains as you want “within reason.” It’s apparently just one guy with some AWS instances, but it was very straightforward to set up.
The same applies to what I commented about Mxroute - Purelymail doesn’t cater to users who require end-to-end encryption, advanced privacy features, or those who need built-in security measures beyond standard email protocols, as it’s primarily focused on reliable email delivery and hosting rather than security-first communication.
Tuta would be a viable alternative to Proton. Purelymail is a one-person operation while Tuta is an stablished German company with proven security record.
Yeah, I considered E2EE. Even set up PGP keys in Thunderbird and installed https///mailvelope.com . For E2EE to really be viable, your correspondents have to comply, and none of the people I email with have any interest. I even email with someone on proton, and they always reply to me in the clear.
I mean, as far as I’m concerned, if not for all the websites that ask for email to register, I wouldn’t be using it. No personal comms go via email.
I was dumb enough to walk away from that approach about 10 years ago. Ugh. But you’ve convinced me. The annual cost of a domain is lunch money for a week. The freedom it provides in this scenario is well worth it.
There’s a lot of domains you can get for the price of a single coffee, if you don’t insist on it being cute, readable, or one of the legacy TLDs. Between purelymail and a .top domain, it’s $15/year.
PetteriPano+1 for purelymail.
I’ve had my personal domain on gmail and most recently proton. Proton got too pricy when I wanted to add another couple of domains. After some research I landed on purelymail, and it’s been smooth sailing to set up and use.
What do you mean by “I bought a domain”? Is the domain has been rented or there is someone who sells domain for life and heritage?
CrisI have pretty good experience with Tutanota an bitwarden as the most direct alternatives
Tutanota apps lack a bit of polish but the UI looks reasonably nice and gets the job done. Bitwarden has treated me pretty well.
Josieim using a nextcloud host called murena. you could probably use an equally good one or self host, but i found the free next cloud host sign up till too buggy to use.
main draw of next cloud for me is you can use features like third party clients and calendar sharing without having to manually downgrade your subscription
After digging around, I’m going to try Tuta for email/calendar and Mullvad for VPN. Tuta’s €3 plan lets you have 15 additional addresses and 3 custom domains.
Anyone using a good proton drive alternative?
Anyone using a good proton drive alternative?
I run Synology NAS and I love it, but it was expensive to set up.
Other extreme is Syncthing for completely free device sync, but no backup beyond your devices and both devices must be online to sync.
I self-hosted Nextcloud on cloudamo with Cryptomator for e2ee but I can’t really recommend it. It is pain to administer and tends to be buggy.
Taasz/WoofMailbox.org
Well fuck
themadcodgerYeah, my two year contact just renewed with them before this happened. fml
You can still cancel your subscription so that it won’t auto-renew in 2 years and it let’s you leave a comment when doing so if you want to voice any concerns.
DekkiaYou can get a refund within 30 of an auto-renewal. That’s what I did too.
Whaaaaa? For reals? It didn't let me automatically, so I assume you had to contact them?
You have to contact them about the refund, it’s not automatic.
Check my comment history..
I said this before:
fucking stop putting all your eggs in one basket, folks
Mix and match ftw...
This is not a deal breaker for me but if they keep this up, I will stop using them. And it just one service, so I can easily do it, assholes.
This is not a deal breaker for me
Absolutely disgusting.
halcyoncmdrI mean company backs pro-company party isn’t exactly surprising. You want to not shop at every company that supports Republicans? You’re going to have a hard time finding anywhere to shop in most of the US. Gotta stick to smaller companies, and if you get small enough you’ll get to mom and pop locations where personal votes are the comparison and they’ve voted Republican their entire lives.
it’s a matter of degrees. I think drawing a line at outright public endorsement is perfectly reasonable.
the CEO of a company I use for emails expressed a questionable opinion on antitrust issue
it’s not deal breaker for me
absolutely disgusting
If this is absolutely disgusting for you, I guess you have really, really, really high standards, that probably nobody can meet.
Not being ok with a rapist insurrectionist grifter felon being in charge of the country is too high a standard?
🖕
Expressing support for a specific person picked, in a specific and narrow context = being OK with etc…?
Also, it’s not his country either (like is not mine). As an external observer does it mean that if Trump will do anything (anything at all) that I agree with, even for the broken clock theory, I need to lobotomize myself and not say it, otherwise I am OK with a rapist insurrectionist grifter felon etc. etc.?
Are you ok? Do you need an adult?
No, I can read sentences in context, and I learned that the world has 3 dismensions quite early. Maybe it was because I lived in a country with a public school system that works (more or less).
Anyway, a cult is a cult, and I feel I have nothing to gain from this interaction. Cya.
“We’re not liberal or conservative, we’re a secret third thing!(conservative)”
roofuskitThey vote for whoever helps them get paid the most.
VanthCapitalist.
They’re swiss.
We have more parties in our equivalent of the presidential office than you have parties in total.
I have huge problems with this notion that you have to be either democrat or conservative. They don’t even cover 50% of the opinions I, a green-liberal (actual liberal, not US-definition), hold.
You’re absolutely able and allowed to have your own opinion different from what any party official says.
I have a huge problem with parties period. Parties inhibit critical thinking. And I’m an American. And I don’t want this. Eat the rich!