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This is super basic but I need to find a better email option (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not that many people use email much anymore, but as you often need an email address to sign up for other shit... anyway, I need a better option than gmail, I'm sure you can appreciate why. Email is so old school at this point that most of the time I don't even think about it anymore.

Anyway, I need some email options that aren't gmail or otherwise attached to a billionaire. I'm not really interested in non-email methods of communication, I'm specifically asking about email.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Several links, here:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities/

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58476983

https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/09/07/protonmail-criticised-for-passing-arrested-french-climate-activist-s-ip-address-to-police

https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-giving-up-activists-data/

Hope this helps!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

For everyone who doesn't want to read the links: important to note is that had the french activist accessed his protonmail account using any vpn (including proton) or the protonmail .onion site, they would have had nothing useful to report. also, it looks like they only logged the IP after being ordered to monitor access to the mailbox.

It also seems that they were quite frustrated that they couldn't resist in this case, mentioning the inappropate usage of anti-terror laws against what in reality were squatters (which in turn compelled the swiss judges to grant the monitoring).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Sure, happy to help! 🙂