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Email to avoid email providers from companies like Google or Microsoft.
It's a great deal too! My own domain was 50€ for 10 years, and Purelymail hosting is 10 bucks per year.
Whats some good ones?
I use Tutanota with a private domain, but you can get a free address with them also.
I’m still using the services of Big Email, which means I’m the product in this setting. From a philosophical standpoint, that sucks. From a practical point of view, I don’t really see any downsides. Surely there are some that I’m just not aware of.
If they want to show me some ads, I have ublock origin and NextDNS to take care of that. What else should I know about my situation?
They get access to all emails used for banking, shopping, social media accounts, etc. Depends on if you are fine with them being able to build a detailed profile off your emails.
Ads is like the least problematic aspect.
Your email is the root of your digital identity, and pretty much everything in your digital life is tied to it. If your email is provided by Big Email, they own your digital identity and it exists at their whim, with no recourse if it gets taken away, compromised, or abused.
If you own your domain and pay for mail hosting, you can at least move your email between providers if something goes wrong, and have some recourse with those providers since you're a customer instead of a product.
You have zero privacy and also generate power for them to do the things they do, which is gargle trump's sharty grey scrote and thus empower trump