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[–] 81 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Top tip: don’t use Google’s products.

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  • [+] 14 points 2 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Pro tip for when you do move: get your own domain. Plenty of mail hosts allow you to use your own domain, which you can just keep using at the next mail host, so you don't have to update any accounts.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    It can be done gradually. It’s a lot of work but you’re not powerless. While you’re at it convert to an alias service so every account gets a unique email. Use your own domain and you can move email providers. I know this is a lot but it’s possible and worth it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Just forward your email to your new email. I did about 5 years ago. Now whenever I get an email that was still sent to my gmail I take a few minutes to change the email, but that's becoming less and less.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    If you start today with a new email, it will take a while but every service/person you switch is one more that isn't training AI.

    It can be a win where you get back what you put in. It can literally just be your top three contacts and make a difference.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    What is this defeatist bullshit? You overcame every fucking obstacle for all your years only to give up the ghost at the prospect of a little clerical work? You're better than that! I moved a few years ago and I'm doing just fine now - I didnt even move everything, I just realised that a lot of the things that have my email are just birds of the same feather as that of google and I can do just fine without them too. Leave the shitty data harvesters in the past where they belong, with un-updated personal information.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    my dude i get you're probably trying to be encouraging but it comes off smug and condescending. sometimes we get tired in the middle of a project and need a break, we'll get back around to it next month. no need to jump on Funky's back if they're in a similar sitiation.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Hey they never said exactly where those “ends” are.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago*

    That's why Apple really needs to prove they are sticking with AI locally indexing information and not sent out. Whether it's an RCS or iMessage and you say it's E2E, but your calendar app on another device is now recommending an event based on that text... People should be verifying that at no point did that data leave their encrypted cloud data. If it did... Neither is E2E

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Some companies think end to end encryption is when you check the content on both ends.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    End to end encrypted except for the runtime of users which is where you do the data harvesting

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    Is the ai overview in Gmail now?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

    I mean, just learn how to GPG and you can send the message encrypted between y’all.

    I just opened a Proton email account, and it claims to be encrypted; however, I still suspect they hold the keys for warrants and shit so I won’t trust it that far.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    In court, many times, it has been shown that proton cannot decrypt the emails

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, they don't have to. It's kind of pointless to have encrypted storage when everything that enters and exits is plaintext.

    In theory it should be possible to keep things encrypted strictly among Proton mailboxes but that's more like a private message board than email.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Proton to proton is end to end encrypted. But yeah for future looking emails in plaintext, like any provider, they could be intercepted on the wire. It's not pointless and I bet has saved many people's asses.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I don't like how proton requires you either use their proprietary mail app or bridge. Mailbox.org just pgp encrypts messages, which you can read through regular imap with any mail client that supports pgp decryption

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  • [+] -16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Always amazed by the creativity of the people around here.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Wait, we can have accounts on more than one platform?! Why has no one told me this

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