Posted on 01/10/2021 10:14:08 PM PST by krogers58
To those that are interested in keeping their communications private, and out of Google's hands, you can sign up for free, encrypted email. Also, there is a basic free vpn service offered through this provider. I've had nothing but luck with the ease of using this service, and highly recommend it.
If the deep state wants to monitor your email and other communications, you might as well make them work for it. We aren't important enough for them to take interest, but Google makes a fortune off of selling everything they can learn about you. Using Tor (firefox browser, connected by it's own anonymous web servers) and piping it through a vpn ought to keep them busy trying to decipher everything. Everybody should be encrypting everything digital they have, and their digital communications.
THere are also proton mail and vpn apps for cellphones, as well.
title should be “your”, and not “you”
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Mark Levin advertises Express VPN (I think it is). Has anyone used that?
Should be “ow-hay oo-tay crypt -enay our-yay ommunications-cay”
Thanks for the lol. Needed that.
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So does FraudStalinBook. Starve THEM of revenue. In your browser, turn off/block what is called cross site tracking, block Google analytics. Huh?
When you jump around to various websites, most of them have script buried in the web pages that collect data for Google or StalinBook. They sell the info gained to companies.
Example: You browse at 5 different web sites looking for bed comforters. Suppliers of bed comforters buy that info from Google (DO MAXIMUM EVIL) and StalinBook. Next thing you notice, you are getting targeted ads or emails for those items. If you block that information, these tech dark overlords HAVE NOTHING OF VALUE TO SELL AND MAKE REVENUE FROM. THEIR STOCK PRICE GOES DOWN. Zuckerburg's personal net worth goes down.
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No problem. To quote Laz,”We are so screwed.”
This is a good topic. Identity & Signing are also important.
I have some degree of experience working with encryption and the app services level, but that may not be suitable for mail and stuff. PGP was mentioned recently.
We should all post our public signatures on our home page. Someone one need to provide guidance.
From my research Express is good but I use Nord because it handles my 300M connection with no bandwidth loss. A caution though,anything free is worth exactly what you paid for it.
If you are using a web service hosted in the US, they are probably using your data to make money. It wont be personally identifying, but it's not really free, or secure.
Swiss and German hosted email services, on the other hand, are highly regulated with what they can do with a customer's information.
So about free...why not pay for the service. Most providers come in at about $30-35 per year. with the exception of protonmail.
Aide from price, the other thing to consider is what information you have to give up to get the service. i.e.- do you have to provide your real name, address, phone number, etc.
First recommendation. Get a PayPal account. It's easy, free, secure, and it will convert purchases for services to euros when you pay for the service.
Three options:
Protonmail.com- This is swiss-based. You can get one free email address. The down side is you cannot access from a web browser, or an email client like Thunderbird or Outlook. This is because is its truly end to end encrypted, server side, during transmission, and when you access it in their app on a device. If you want more email addresses, you have to pay. I do not use this service because I can't access via a web browser.
Posteo.com - This is a german-based company. Lowest tier is 1 euro per month. You get a primary email address, and two aliases. There is no dedicated app, and uses SMTP/POP server so it can be accessed from the web, or traditional email programs on Mac or PC. I use this service as it is cheap, and does what I need t to with end to end encryption, and no data sharing by the company. Added bonus is the ability to change the domain tag to make it look like you originate from outside the US. ie- abcdef@posteo.de rather than abcdef@posteo.com
Tutanota.com - This is a german-based company. Lowest tier is 25 euros (~$35) per year. You get a primary email address, and four aliases. It is basically the same as posteo, above. This one, though, does have an app, and can be accessed via web browser. I also have an account with this service.
So why do I have two paid accounts with two different services? Well, one is a backup in case I forget a password for the other. Also, one is for serious stuff, and the other for fluff. I also have aliases set up for junk website sign-ups and stuff, and I'll just delete the alias at the end of the year and start fresh with a new alias for 2022.
Why PayPal? With each of the services above, using PayPal allows you to make a payment without providing any information on my real identity to the email provider companies. Even if someone wanted to reveal who is using my email, they cant. The provider doesn't record IP traffic, and the emails are encrypted. And, the bill is paid anonymously. Now of course, they could trace forward to see that I have paid for the service, bu not backward starting with the email address.
Anyway, screw the free-mail providers. Stop being a cheapskate and shell out a few bucks to a company who respects your privacy.
[Snicker] I knew that there would be a laugh in this thread but didn’t expect such a good one.
Thanks! Actually Express has a trial period but it isn’t free.
Can’t be too careful anymore!
TorGuard is fast and pretty good about having no problems with banned IPs (especially with the streaming package). If you want to get all spooky and s___, there’s OVPN (dudes will even take the fee by way of cash in an envelope). ;)
I use tutanota as #1
Protonmail #2
Happy with both of them.
They once sat on a $30 payment to Skype and refused to process it for 10 days. I needed the Skype service immediately, only for a few days. They finally processed the payment after the service was no longer needed. So no to Paypal.
They were an early adopter of cancel culture. They may have even invented it.
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