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Degox – Taking back my internet privacy and presence

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Post by simmervigor » Wed, Jan 03, 2024, 2:39 PM UTC

Degox – Taking back my internet privacy and presence
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Re: Degox – Taking back my internet privacy and presence

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Post by forward1 » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 6:31 PM UTC

It's kind of incredible for a person to be aware of surveillance capitalism and also store "151 thousand emails" unencrypted on a third party server.

The same emails could be routinely downloaded offline for archiving and removed from possible prying eyes elsewhere.

Re: Degox – Taking back my internet privacy and presence

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Post by Kluggy » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 9:40 PM UTC

forward1 wrote: post #2

It's kind of incredible for a person to be aware of surveillance capitalism and also store "151 thousand emails" unencrypted on a third party server. The same emails could be routinely downloaded offline for archiving and removed from possible prying eyes elsewhere.

Personally, I use https://github.com/joeyates/imap-backup to archive all my emails and then only keep them on the remote server for as long as I need to (basically until I read them and respond or download an attachment into https://docs.paperless-ngx.com )