Currently wondering if the black Friday deal for proton is worth it. Gmail has suited me fine, but I hear it’s bad for privacy. I’m on an android phone anyway, so switching email services might not even matter.
Currently wondering if the black Friday deal for proton is worth it. Gmail has suited me fine, but I hear it’s bad for privacy. I’m on an android phone anyway, so switching email services might not even matter.
Yes gmail is bad for privacy. It’s near impossible to avoid it because even if your own email is hosted elsewhere or self-hosted, your correspondents are probably mostly on gmail, so gmail gets the contents of the emails that you send them.
I’m using fastmail.fm which is pretty good technically and has decent customer support that has actual humans answering your tickets, but is a bit on the expensive side. mxroute.com is a reasonable approach if you are up to some nerdery (you need your own domain) and want email on the cheap. I haven’t tried proton, which has too much marketing for my comfort.
On the client side I’ve been using K-9 on android and it is ok. There is another one (fairmail iirc) that is also supposed to be good. Both are on f-droid.org. I don’t have a google account and don’t install from google play. On the desktop, Fastmail has a pretty good web client, and Thunderbird is better now than it was til recently.