Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?

Post by drngdds » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:13 PM UTC

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I'm an European, but I don't mind. First of all when making such a choice, you have to identify who the enemy is. If you're talking about global enemies, like the NSA, then IMO without end-to-end encryption you're screwed. And if you're targeted directly, you're screwed regardless, given they have the capability to use whatever vulnerabilities they can find in your router, your phone, your OS, your browser, etc. If i…

>"Organizations like EFF have been historically anti-government ..." Can you provide a citation or examples of this? Being pro-civil liberties does not imply anti-government. Those aren't mutually exclusive. In the US civil liberties are basic freedoms identified in the Bill or Rights and the Constitution. And the Constitution is what established the government in the first place. How is it possible to be pro-civil l…

Post by contem » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:18 PM UTC

Post by senorjazz » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:21 PM UTC

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It's expensive if you think of what it costs to keep a mail server online. They have a price that clearly shows to me that they have no competition.

There is competition. It’s just that many people don’t know or haven’t tried them. Here are three providers on par with Fastmail but are way cheaper if you need multiple mailboxes — Posteo (posteo.de), Mailbox (mailbox.org) and Runbox (runbox.com). But I do believe that even these cheaper ones are expensive for what they provide in terms of storage capacity, number of aliases, etc. Costs are supposed to go down over…

Post by dkhenry » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:23 PM UTC

contem wrote: post #493

Stay on GMail, but don't log-in to the web interface. Instead use Thunderbird. That way you can read your mail without being forced logged-in to search or video. Google has been making this harder and harder though (now calling Thunderbird insecure, and requiring you to allow insecure app's in the options), but it is a good canary in the coal mine: Once I can't avoid this unified/universal log-in, I'll know Google tu…

Post by cosinetau » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 4:32 PM UTC

bad_user wrote: post #464

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>Organizations like EFF have been historically anti-government, but very pro corporate and private companies. I don't think I'd call EFF either anti-government or pro-corporate. Rather, they have a set of positions around surveillance, the public domain, etc. and side with or against governments or private companies based on those positions. I donate to them, and in my experience they've been pretty consistent on the…

I don't want to attack EFF, I think they are on the right side, but it's just a general feeling I've got. For example when the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal broke loose, that was the perfect opportunity for them to go out against private surveillance, guns blazing. Their reaction was late and with an article like " here's how to protect against Facebook tracking ", advising people to opt out in their Setti…