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[โ€“] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

Posteo is the sexy place to be.

[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

A video on how to leave gmail on....gtube? I'll pass ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 55 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

They also run their own peertube instance and publish their videos there. OP could have posted that link instead.

Here you go:

https://peertube.heise.de/w/qWbFwEfTW5TgheJ6v2CZNe

@OP - if you read this please add the peertube link to you post

[โ€“] lena@gregtech.eu 8 points 6 days ago

Wow that's really cool

[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.zip 4 points 6 days ago

Thank you very much, updated the link!

[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Ah okay. I don't usually consume social media so I don't know. It just sounded satirical.

[โ€“] Reznik@lemmy.zip 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Here is your peertube vid.

/edit: Yes, heise has a official peertube server and I think we should use it.

[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Thank you very much, updated the link!

[โ€“] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We are all still cool with Proton though, right? That was where I was planning on heading.

[โ€“] cheat700000007@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They now have a history of complying with government data requests and the founder supports Republicans

[โ€“] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Any sources on these claims?

https://protos.com/protonmail-hands-info-to-government-but-says-its-not-google/

TL;DR: Proton complied with Spanish authorities and gave up all the information they had on a man (the recovery email.)

With this in mind, I would personally say Proton is safe. The fact that all they were capable of providing was the recovery email should show that Proton is trustworthy with their privacy.

This is only one case, if anyone has any others, please do share them.

[โ€“] Zephorah@discuss.online 5 points 6 days ago

Itโ€™s garbage, for starters. Microsoft is no better. Proton or Tuta is the way.

[โ€“] EverXIII@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I did. Very happy with Proton.

[โ€“] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Just commenting based on the title since I am blocked from YT and also donโ€™t speak German. (An English transcript would be useful)


Ditching Gmail is trivially easy. Boycotting gmail is where the interesting conversation is, because often you need to reach someone who uses gmail. You can do an MX lookup on the domain of the recipientโ€™s email address, but that only works about 70% of the time. If they use an email firewall like Barracuda or a forwarding address, then there is no way to know where the email route ends.

If I cannot get confidence from an MX lookup, then the recipient is getting a fax or postal letter from me. Google could still end up in the loop, but as long as you donโ€™t reveal an email address to the recipient, at least you remain in control over what Google collects and profits from.

[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

dankeschรถn!

[โ€“] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago

Thanks. I noticed that but I would have to wait till I have a decent connection and then I wouldnโ€™t understand the German anyway.

[โ€“] LeTak@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago

We got Proton, Tutanota, Posteo and others like Mail.de So the see got plenty of fish

For anyone interested, I switched from Gmail to mailbox.org about a year ago and I've been happy with it.

I tried eclipso and didn't like it, fwiw.