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[–] Confound4082@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Look in to switching to a privacy respecting email. It's not for everyone, but i am very happy with the Proton suite of apps.

I might do that, I made this email when I was 13 and didn't know much about the digital world

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'd advise against Proton - they're not good at actually respecting privacy and require a premium subscription to access your email over SMTP (making it much harder to switch away and locking you into their client).

[–] misanthropy@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Email isn't private. They don't scan your email for ads which is about all you can ask for

[–] Confound4082@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

??

They strip all the tracking from the emails. I'll unsubscribe from ads, or turn off compromised addresses, but them not scanning my emails is a plus.

How is it not private?

[–] misanthropy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Email as a protocol is not private. It wasn't designed to be.

[–] Confound4082@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Define private

[–] Confound4082@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Please expound on your thoughts. I happen to be a paid subscriber, cause I want to support them and I appriciate the extra features I get. So the issues with the free accounts arent a problem for me, but my friends who use the free account don't seem to have any complaints.