Interesting article critical of Protonmail, a service I see widely promoted to political dissidents as a way to avoid NSA surveillance of emails.

Maybe a better method would be GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) to encrypt e-mails on your own computer before sending them?

There is also this: https://sendgrid.com/blog/what-is-starttls/

Or Bitmessage (which is decentralised)?

      • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Right on. Hadn’t had a chance to read them yet cuz I’m doing yard work but I’m not super worried about it as my main goal is limiting my dealing with the major tech companies as much is possible,. Thanks for your insight!

          • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Lmk if you post it I’d love to read it.

            I do a lot of the recommended things from privacytools.io and limit my association with big tech as much as possible.

            I still use a gmail for work, and have an ig for work (I work in an industry where it’s common to use it) but tbh I’m almost never on it and hardly if ever post. I have no other social media. But apart from that I really don’t use any major tech products any more

              • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Yea the wearing people down is real. The way I have things set up now I have to pass a fucking captcha test to do just about anything lol.