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Maybe a bit contrarian but the best move might not be to move away for google unless the main driver is data privacy. If you just don't want to risk being locked out its more important to keep access to your data these would be the steps: - Get your own domain for email. If google locks you out you can just point it to somewhere else. - Set google takeout to make monthly backups (automatically) of your email, photos…
If you use an email provider that lets you use your own custom domain, and use that as your primary email address on all of those sites and one day the provider decides to purge you off their site, the domain still belongs to you, so you can jump to a new service, point it at the same address, and all your internet accounts are none the wiser.
For email, I forwarded all emails to my new email. The rest was easy, except for Youtube... I need to find a way to subscribe to channels without a Google account (it would be nice if they had RSS and an external link).
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Fastmail is much cheaper if you need many gigs of storage, but you don't get the encryption Proton offers.
Fastmail doesn’t allow custom domains on it’s first tier paid plan, does it? $50 per year - custom domain, 30GB $30 per year - no custom domain, no IMAP, 2GB (yes, 2GB!) That’s some pricing! The last thing you want is use an email that’s paid and not on your domain! Fastmail’s Basic paid plan is absurd not only price/feature wise, it’s useless just for not letting custom domain use. I would rather stick to alternativ…
I'm really happy with fastmail. Anything sent to anything@anything.mydomain goes in my inbox, and I can apply filtering based on those. It also lets me generate @fastmail.com emails if I don't want to expose my domain. It also scrapes my ~5 old gmail addresses and copies those emails into my inbox. It's awesome.
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On the upside, Fastmail is the one e-mail service that I have tested that is actually more comfortable to use than Gmail. How they manage to incorporate practically every feature I could dream of while offering a totally neat, snappy, intuitive interface across platforms is just impressive. (Testing right now and planning to move there from Gmail.) Proton looks really neat too, I just don’t like the thought of not ha…
And the Fastmail mobile apps are better than the Gmail mobile apps. Way better. It's crazy.
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OpenStreetMap data is probably the best geographic data you’ll find all around the world. Which region are you speaking about?
India.
I have the luxury to live in central Europe, and here both are much, much closer in amount of detail.
I'm still looking for an alternative e-mail provider that is more privacy-conscious than Google, still works with ordinary IMAP and is based in the EU so I get to actually benefit from EU data protection. Haven't found one that ticks all boxes yet, but going with a US company doesn't appear to change much as I'm not a US citizen and hence fair game once my data is on US servers and I guess it inevitably will end up t…
Casual use - ProtonMail
Git and friends - Nixnet
Use FairEmail on Android and Geary (sometimes Aerc) on Linux.
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Fastmail is much cheaper if you need many gigs of storage, but you don't get the encryption Proton offers.
Fastmail doesn’t allow custom domains on it’s first tier paid plan, does it? $50 per year - custom domain, 30GB $30 per year - no custom domain, no IMAP, 2GB (yes, 2GB!) That’s some pricing! The last thing you want is use an email that’s paid and not on your domain! Fastmail’s Basic paid plan is absurd not only price/feature wise, it’s useless just for not letting custom domain use. I would rather stick to alternativ…
For me this isn't about the $20, but more about making do with less. If I had a higher quota, the only thing it would allow me to do is accumulate more trash email! I do agree with you though that for $30/yr, they should allow custom domains.