• gigachad@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    4 months ago

    You could also get a private E-Mail address that doesn’t scan all your mails to make money out of it. Google tries to enprison you in it’s ecosystem by “facilitating” logins and so on. If you don’t pay with money, you pay with your data.

    mailbox.org
    posteo.net

    Both are great alternatives for only a couple of bucks a month.

    • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Last year, I saw an article written by a recruiter about how recruiters are sort of biased against you if you use a non-GMail account because it “feels” like you’re on old tech and out of touch and, therefore, will be hard to place and, Void, did it make be so mad.

    • cRazi_man@europe.pub
      0·
      4 months ago

      Huge vote for mailbox.org. They have calendars, contract lists, online storage, etc. I’ve been able to get rid of Google/gmail almost entirely from my phone.

        • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
          0·
          4 months ago

          I don’t know anything about mailbox.org, but I’m sure it’s way less sketchy than Google. It’s just interesting you would praise their free video conferences after posting “if you don’t pay with money, you pay with data.”

          • Player2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            Should have said ‘included’ rather than ‘free’ since it is a paid service

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca
    2·
    4 months ago

    Yeah, I got my name when gmail was ‘invite only’ :/

    It actually kinda sucks. At any given time I have between 3 and a zillion idiots around the globe who, for months or years on end, keep buying concert tickets, airline/vacation bookings, get job hits, legal firm or health-care notifications … using my email (jbloggs@gmail.com) instead of (jbloggs999@gmail.com) or whatever variant they actually signed up for, since I got ‘just my name’ and they keep. forgetting. their. own. bloody. email.

    And most of the time this shit is sent from a ‘noreply@wherever.net’ so I can’t even tell them they have the wrong email address. Grrrrrrr.

    • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Same here. And the reasons you mention are exactly the reason I deleted that account a few years ago when I switched to Fastmail.

      A couple of my friends are willing to put up with it, but always mention the volume of spam they deal with.

      I’ve had my new email address for 6-odd years and only have one regular spam source - from a hack of an online shop - but as I used a username+shopname email alias for it, it’s easy to detect and automatically handle.

      Now I use Fastmail’s “Masked Email” feature for each online account. When (not if) a site gets hacked, I just change the site to use a new masked address and block/delete the old one, and then it’s useless to scammers/spammers.

  • AstaKask@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I own the domain for my last name (firstname@lastname.countrycode) and get people all the time insisting it can’t be my real email. I also own a short domain based on my last name (like last.nm) which is very useful and techy people think it’s pretty cool.

    • starman@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      May I ask, where do you come from? I use firstname@lastname.dev domain, and even elderly people never question it. When I bought it, I was considering .pl (my country’s TLD), because I thought that people would be suspicious of the .dev, but suprisingly they aren’t.