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The US should use the current market decline to split up Google. Splitting it up would allow for more competition and overall improve the tech sector. Ideally you'd see the government force a split up Youtube, Cloud, Search, and their Ad Exchange into separate companies.
If the US government does this, you can be pretty sure it'll keep taking copies of all email in the split-up Google as well.
Third party email for personal use is like using a PO Box despite have private property, a house, and an address. There is no reason that everyone cannot have their own mailbox on their own property. Even more, instead of the post office managine these PO Boxes, email uses a private entity that is trying to sell advertising services, and/or brokering direct email marketing. Both systems, snail mail and email, have been largely co-opted by the potential for direct mail marketing, so-called "junk mail". Even if one never sees any junk in their inbox (thanks to "filters"), the junk mail senders are still influencing the system. The continued enablement and presence of those junk senders, who are still sending massive quantities of junk with the help of Big Email, is why third party email providers, like Gmail, block residential IP addresses. You own property, a house and an address but you cannot have your won mailbox. That is how third party email provision works.
1. Heck, one could probably use a "lightning" network too but folks today want to use peer-to-peer overlay networks for "crypto" exclusively, not messaging or any other useful activity. Go figure. This whole means of using networks without third party intermediaries is as old as computer networks themselves. Gamers have long used LANs and overlay networks for communication, since before the internet became popular. Arguably, we could think of everything we do on the internet as a "game" that justifies use of overlays.
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You can be against something and still find yourself having to use things you complain about. Folks still eat food even though they are aghast at how farm workers are exploited in the world. You can support robust public transportation yet drive a car due to poor-to-no public transit. Sometimes, facebook is the best place to organize demonstrations against facebook. Just because you have complaints about the world do…
I think the food example doesn't work because it's not optional.
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What email do you use with domain registrar? I ended up switching most if mine domains to google domains simply because i find its ui more convenient for me, all eggs in one basket i guess. But how do you ensure that you aren’t gonna loose access to your domain account?
Given the way Google locks out accounts with no support or appeal I can't think of a worse registrar to use. I use my ISP's email address with my registrar, if they want to keep getting paid each month its in their interests to keep that email address working.
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Using your own domain also has advantages in terms of being able to use aliases for different websites so (when, not if) an address gets leaked you can > /dev/null it. If you're cheap like me you can give family members their own subdomain so everyone can have aliases for the cost of a single domain. It's sad to think back on myself nearly two decades ago when Gmail first launched as invitation service and I thought…
Not defending big G here in the slightest but you can do that with Gmail aliases too: Someaddr+alias@gmail resolves to Someaddr@gmail.
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…
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The difference here is that people from the UK voted for losing the right to renew their .eu domains.
Not all of them did. Domains shouldn't be related to citizenship anyway.
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…