Huge vote for mailbox.org. They have calendars, contract lists, online storage, etc. I've been able to get rid of Google/gmail almost entirely from my phone.

Also tutamail

Last year, I saw an article written by a recruiter about how recruiters are sort of biased against you if you use a non-GMail account because it "feels" like you're on old tech and out of touch and, therefore, will be hard to place and, Void, did it make be so mad.

Gmail and MS also make other providers jump through crazy hoops too to let users create a new email, lest they be flagged as a “spam” provider and blacklisted by the 2 services.

The modern internet sucks.

Purelymail is also an amazing service. 10€ per year for unlimited storage and addresses, and you can add your own domains.

This is a pet peeve of mine and I’m sorry to be taking it out on you.

Protecting your data is the biggest exercise in futility in the modern era. You are using Lemmy. I don’t care what services you pay for, someone has your data. They in turn sell it to a third party, who also sells it. The world has your data and paying money to hide your data from google is really stupid.

Unless you live in an outhouse in the woods with no internet, your data no longer belongs to you. Do you think your ISP doesn’t have your data and already sold it? Do you think your bank doesn’t have your data and already sold it? Let me guess you pay Generic VPN $10/month to protect your data. Oh you bought the Fairphone and paid extra for next day shipping so you could release your data from the clutches of google. Oh wait, you use Linux and personally hand picked every line of code so your data won’t ever be stolen.

Enough with the crap about protecting your data. It’s a scam and the money you spend every month on data protection is better spent on a fleshlight.