If I were to never touch GMail again and use Thunderbird for the rest of my life, would I need to change my adress to free myself from the deathgrip of google?

  • blakeus12 [he/him]
    hexagon
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    11 months ago

    actually, is protonmail any good? i use their VPN on my phone to acess wifi-banned apps at school :P

    • microfiche [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Give it a shot. I’m not sure what their storage limit is though so it may not be what you’re used to with gmail.

      • blakeus12 [he/him]
        hexagon
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        11 months ago

        gotcha, they're more secure than google i'm assuming. although that is NOT a high bar lol

    • Hungover [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      The only downside to protonmail I encountered is that the free plan doesn't include IMAP support, so you won't be able to integrate your protonmail to your non-proton mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird, your default phone mail client...)

      If that's not an issue for you Protonmail seems pretty good :)

      • blakeus12 [he/him]
        hexagon
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        11 months ago

        yeah, i'm down to use the web instance. time to start gradually de-googling in the wake of WEI