Leave Gmail in 10 steps

Adrien Di Pasquale ^ | 2DEC18 | Adrien Di Pasquale

[Segovia]

well, I’ve been “migrating” away from Google for quite some time, no longer use google search, I like Duck Duck Go also; and I’ve been, over the past couple years been using my old MS account for everything I really want to see, so after reading this thread tonight, I changed ALL the account info on companies I might want to hear from to the MS address, but then I thought-—— why not just let all that junk mail continue to pile up on google?

[FreedomPoster]

Bfl

[Bob434]

for basic email- use the free mail.com

[palmer]

This is a stupid article. Fastmail costs $5/month if you want to use your own domain. For $5 a month you can get your own virtual server. That would allow you not only your own email server, but your own webserver / photo sharing / mobile backup / whatever, your own VPN, etc. Obviously getting a blank server for $5 a month means you will have to learn how to set it up and keep it secure. But there are a million websites with instructions on how to make that secure.

Eventually everyone will have a virtual presence via server or other means. It won't requiring paying $5 / month for email, $5 more for web, $5 more for backup, $5 for VPN, etc.

Just looked up expressVPN that I hear advertised on talk radio. $6.67 / month with a 15 month commitment. $10 with a 10 month comittment.

[cll]

I was able to register my family name with the .us top level domain. https://www.about.us/

[Natty Bumppo@frontier.net]

Bad analogy in the opening paragraph.

Emails are like postcards, not letters. Anyone who handles your email traffic (and a whole lot of other people) can and do read them.

[discostu]

Step 11 - find out your new provider actually uses gmail as their backend. What a waste of effort.

[Vermont Lt]

Write a letter. It will be secure because kids don’t know how to read cursive.

[I_be_tc]

For brother to read. Thanks!!

[Obadiah]

ping

[discostu]

It’ll be extra secure because even I can’t read my handwriting.

[vannrox]

I use Chinese email services. I have accounts at 126.com and 163.com.

Firstly, it is FAST...whoosh! No call-backs to NSA headquarters, and data-mining operations by Google, Facebook and all their ilk.

Sure the Chicoms get my email. Big deal. They won’t use it like the NSA will use it. I know that is not a popular narrative here on FR, but heck, it’s the truth. In the USA, the government can press a button, and suddenly you have reams of data to “prove” how evil you are. The Chinese don’t need the excuses. If you want you locked up, you get locked up. It’s a far simpler system.

It sounds rotten, but in practice, it doesn’t affect me.

The free versions have advertisements in Chinese. It’s sort of like Yahoo in that regard, but much cleaner and much, much faster.

BTW... Under what AUTHORITY did the Department of Homeland Security have to take down “kickasstorrents”? Owned by a foreign entity, with non-American servers. I thought that the federal police operated independently from the CIA?

[garyb]

Same authority they have to ask the Canadians to hold a Chinese citizen who sold products to a county we don’t like.

[minnesota_bound]

I have my web browser delete cookies when I close the Firefox browser. I go to youtube and see many of the same suggestions and videos already seen before. In short I am still tracked.
My IP address does not change enough so I figure they are tracking that way.