What email would you presently suggest for personal use?

Near void pales of intracranial expanse ^ | 05NOV23 | Gnarl of the Maw Faction

[gnarledmaw]

Gmail has gotten to the point that it regularly locks me out of my accounts for a week or more.

Im tired of them using phony security concerns to track my location, accounts, devices, etc.

Looking for free accounts for personal use.

Interested in hearing about your experience using other emails, both the pros and cons.

What are your suggestions?

[gnarledmaw]

I swore off Microsoft Virusportal decades ago and wouldnt ever return.

I had some old lycos accounts but after they deleted those accounts without warning to switch to a pay per account system I wouldnt trust them with a paid account either.

I really havent tried much else in 20+ years, how about you?

[goodnesswins]

“Free” means YOU are paying with YOUR INFO

[frogjerk]

proton mail

[Dr. Sivana]

I'm tired of them using phony security concerns to track my location, accounts, devices, etc.

Looking for free accounts for personal use.

Those are conflicting requests. The company providing the account has to have its own revenue stream. It will be either your data or your own money. Personally, I buy my own account including a web site that I use mainly as an ftp repository for non-private stuff (like the images I post on FR).

[George from New England]

Get the email your ISP provides. If you pay for internet service then you have an expectation of privacy with that email.

[butlerweave]

https://www.lifewire.com/best-free-email-accounts-1356641 , do some searches

[devane617]

Nothing is hidden. Dont think for a moment anything online is secure.

[Chickensoup]

I use proton. It doesn’t work with my outlook mail on desktop.

Not impressed

[George from New England]

I found I could not even setup proton. Too many hurdles there.

[joe fonebone]

I’ve had the same yahoo email for over 20 years now... never had an issue

[Taffeys]

Another vote for Proton Mail.

https://proton.me/mail

[dljordan]

Protonmail?

[Mr. K]

Just assume that nothing is safe, and don’t ever write anything online anywhere that you would not be willing to shout from a soapbox downtown Square

[MotorCityBuck]

Brilliant! Pretty easy, and not to hard to comprehend.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Protonmail is encrypted and there is a first-tier free version.

They cannot scan your email because they don’t have the key.

I have been using it for a few years, gradually moving my email addresses from yahoo and gmail to protonmail.

I think I am going to complete the switchover ASAP.

[Taffeys]

Proton Mail does work with Outlook if you take the time and effort to configure...

https://proton.me/mail/bridge

[E. Pluribus Unum]

How to configure your email client for Proton Mail Bridge

https://proton.me/support/protonmail-bridge-configure-client

[Chickensoup]

It works for a while then doesn’t connect. Have to call expert snd have it fixed. Have spent several hundred on this so far

[Karliner]

Just assume that nothing is safe, and don’t ever write anything online anywhere that you would not be willing to shout from a soapbox downtown Square

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Agree with this. Few years ago yahoo locked out everyone from their email accounts and forced users to accept some legalese that stated they could have access to emails.

Anyway, whether true or not( I don’t speak lawyer) I never do online banking or anything medical via any portals. Granted probably not any safer but I like the old ways.

[EEGator]

I use it. The guys who created it used to work at CERN.
I use proton for VPN as well.