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Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

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Re: Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

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Post by yabatopia »

juunpp wrote: post #2

I have actually been receiving much spam from gmail addresses lately and have considered banning the domain altogether. > I was surprised to find out that my friend Peter Eckersley — a very privacy conscious person who is Technology Projects Director at the EFF — used Gmail I find that the EFF does this more often than not, like how they also criticize Amazon for giving police warrant-less access to Ring cameras... a…

> I have actually been receiving much spam from gmail addresses lately and have considered banning the domain altogether.

For some accounts I block all Gmail usernames ending with a number: from 0@gmail.com to 9@gmail.com. The only exceptions are addresses that I have added to my whitelist. A bit drastic, but it did wonders to my mailbox.

Re: Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

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Post by stavros »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #87
dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Who hosts your email matters less With my own domain being hosted by Google Legacy Workspace or whatever they call it, I've been wondering about this, and wondering if there has there any evidence of Google cutting off an entire domain randomly. To deal with that possibility I've been thinking what the easiest and most reliable way of providing a "failover" for my domain's mail is. Has anyone dealt with this succes…

Buy Fastmail account (seriously, they should pay us money for advertising them so much). In your DNS/registrar settings add Fastmail as a secondary MX, disable DKIM and SPF. Customize it for your needs (necessary mailboxes/addresses/identities etc). Switch over primary MX to FM (maybe keeping G as a secondary for a week). Somewhat optional, but requires some effort - make G send any incoming email to some address not…

> Buy Fastmail account (seriously, they should pay us money for advertising them so much).

They do pay us money, that's what the referral fee is.

Re: Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

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Post by lexandstuff »

jesuscript wrote: post #45
cglan wrote: post #26

Having your own email/domain isn’t about privacy. Email has become essentially the key to almost everything in modern life. If I lose access to my email I lose access to basically everything I own and it would be a massive hassle to switch emails. Banks, schools, apps, etc. Often times these services won’t even let you change to a new email if you don’t have access to an existing one. Some use email as 2factor. It’s…

Go through that exercise of ditching that email. You will find out the 2-3 things you need absolute plan a/b/c for. Seriously, reset your email password to something you can never remember and write it down and have someone hold it for a month (don’t tell them what is it, tuck it in an envelope). Let your mind run circles around your fears and you’ll find out how little that email account owns you. Freezing one credi…

Sounds like an insane inconvenience. Sorry, what was the point of doing all this again? Just to prove you can?

Re: Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

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Post by jesterson »

pmontra wrote: post #90
YetAnotherNick wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it known that domain registrars are better than GMail in this regard? Not asking sarcastically, but I had my domain taken over by registrar(not released to public, just registrar took control of it) after few week of notice when auto renew failed to charge my credit card, and my credit card was working fine elsewhere. Also many registrar like Namecheap cancelled subscription for Russian customers during this invas…

Anybody can read my email, it's cleartext after all. ISP, registar, etc. I pay for my email as part of my yearly domain fee: 2 domains (personal and self employed work), 2 registars. I download them over POP3, store them locally in Thunderbird, backup them locally (encrypted disk) and remotely (duplicity, can't even remember, too early in the morning.) This protects me against some attacks, not against everything. Th…

How your registrar can read your email?

Re: Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

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Post by Roark66 »

readsadhours wrote: post #79
YetAnotherNick wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it known that domain registrars are better than GMail in this regard? Not asking sarcastically, but I had my domain taken over by registrar(not released to public, just registrar took control of it) after few week of notice when auto renew failed to charge my credit card, and my credit card was working fine elsewhere. Also many registrar like Namecheap cancelled subscription for Russian customers during this invas…

People from the UK that had an .eu domain were unable to renew it after brexit.

Is this really a thing? I had a .eu domain for years. I only let it go this year(it was on annual renewal) . My registered address was and is still in UK and I never had any trouble from my registrar(eurodns) about the EU domain. Or do they do it based on the payment method? (I might have used an EU cc to renew)?

Re: Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

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Post by sonofhans »

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #42
cglan wrote: post #26

Having your own email/domain isn’t about privacy. Email has become essentially the key to almost everything in modern life. If I lose access to my email I lose access to basically everything I own and it would be a massive hassle to switch emails. Banks, schools, apps, etc. Often times these services won’t even let you change to a new email if you don’t have access to an existing one. Some use email as 2factor. It’s…

Is it known that domain registrars are better than GMail in this regard? Not asking sarcastically, but I had my domain taken over by registrar(not released to public, just registrar took control of it) after few week of notice when auto renew failed to charge my credit card, and my credit card was working fine elsewhere. Also many registrar like Namecheap cancelled subscription for Russian customers during this invas…

I've used https://www.pairnic.com for ~15 years, and they're lovely. I've had domains expire several times, and they've never given me grief. They're small enough to give a shit.

Re: Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

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Post by switch007 »

int_19h wrote: post #68
defaultcompany wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don’t own a domain name you rent it. If you ever forget to renew it or you are unable to renew it for some reason then it becomes available for anyone else to register. At that point the new owner can receive all your email and potentially access any accounts which use that email as 2FA. I’m not saying you should never do this but it’s not a silver bullet.

Making sure that your domain registration is always current is not a difficult thing, though. You can register for fairly long periods of time, and set up multiple alerts to manually renew long before it expires.

My register doesn’t allow registrations longer than 1 year. Their reason: “ We've found that longer registration periods lead to a higher chance of customers losing or forgetting their account details or missing notifications and ultimately letting their domains expire due to outdated contact information or expired credit card details.”

I’m wondering whether that’s valid and if I should find a new registrar…

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