It is essential to stop using Chrome.
Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.
Given Google's overwhelming presence in the browser market, this is unconscionable.
We should all despise the ad-tech business, and have no sympathy for the companies getting whacked by Google's actions. But we should not permit one monopolist to replace them all.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/year-review-googles-corporate-paternalism-browser
serious question: what do for email if you’ve been a gmail user for … (checks notes) … almost 20 years? self hosted?
honest question. I’m interested, but really have no idea what my options are when I’ve had the same email address for half my life / all of my adult life.
Fastmail with a custom domain. It’s great, and has a nice migration tool for moving everything over from Gmail. Also integrates nicely with 1Password for personalized email addresses for each service I sign up for, which I can nuke as needed if needed.
Proton Mail as others have suggested is the easy and privacy friendly solution, and probably set an auto forwarding rule from your gmail account to your new Proton Mail.
Otherwise I haven’t self hosted my own email but from my previous attempts it seemed like it’s quite involved
Self hosting email is pretty much impossible nowadays. You have to use your hosting service servers at a minimum. But a dedicated email service will probably have better spam handling (although that’s possibly not as bad as it once was).
Not married to my email and I bought my own domain.
The only hard part is switching all accounts to the new domain (and finding out that some IT/dev departments decided that changing emails doesnt happen at all).
I pay a company a bit too much money so I don’t have to worry about self hosting.
serious question: what do for email if you’ve been a gmail user for … (checks notes) … almost 20 years? self hosted?
honest question. I’m interested, but really have no idea what my options are when I’ve had the same email address for half my life / all of my adult life.
Fastmail with a custom domain. It’s great, and has a nice migration tool for moving everything over from Gmail. Also integrates nicely with 1Password for personalized email addresses for each service I sign up for, which I can nuke as needed if needed.
awesome, thanks for that! I’ll look into it.
I’m not saying that is the only good option, but you should look into proton mail.
Proton Mail as others have suggested is the easy and privacy friendly solution, and probably set an auto forwarding rule from your gmail account to your new Proton Mail.
Otherwise I haven’t self hosted my own email but from my previous attempts it seemed like it’s quite involved
Self hosting email is pretty much impossible nowadays. You have to use your hosting service servers at a minimum. But a dedicated email service will probably have better spam handling (although that’s possibly not as bad as it once was).
I personally use mailbox.org for emails and anonaddy for aliases
Not married to my email and I bought my own domain.
The only hard part is switching all accounts to the new domain (and finding out that some IT/dev departments decided that changing emails doesnt happen at all).
I pay a company a bit too much money so I don’t have to worry about self hosting.