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Is Google moving toward age verification just to have an account for your phone? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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The Google AI itself just informed me that Google can ask me for ID if it suspects that I may be under 18. Does anyone know if this has already happened to someone? I have important accounts that I need my gmail to log into. What email provider do you recommend that I use instead? I'm aware of tuta and protonmail but are they reliable that they will not one day shut down the way Skiff email did?

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[–] 3 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

Interesting, it might've changed, I've had my domain for 5+ years by now, but if you set up all the signing keys, DKIM, SPF, and whatever properly, I never had a single issue as far as I know.

But I never tried sending my own emails - I've been using Protonmail's custom domain option, which I'm sure helps. Running your own mailserver without a trusted provider might be a lot more problematic, I never even considered it. The idea wasn't to run my own mailserver, but to be able to move my custom domain to a different provider that supports custom domains, so I don't have to change my email anywhere.

I just made sure that my domain is passing all the email domain checker tests, and as long as I don't get on a blacklist, I should be fine.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I second this, custom domain on Proton, DKIM, SPF, DMARC all setup, have never had anyone complain about emails not coming through.

    The only thing I'll add is that I did actually go through a migration from M365 to Proton and it was pretty painless, this was a while ago so the process might be better now, but I just exported a PST, used the bridge connector to add proton to Outlook, then imported the PST, once it synced I got rid of my Microslop licensing and switched to the official Proton Mail app, though lately I've just been using the web app since I haven't installed too many apps since switching over to Linux.

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