Warum ihr euch jetzt von Google Mail verabschieden solltet
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Warum jetzt der Zeitpunkt gekommen ist, sich von Big Tech zu verabschieden, und welche europäischen Alternativen es für eure E-Mails gibt, erfahrt ihr in diesem Video. ► Zum Artikel: https://heise....

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    • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Well, you target where most people with GMail are… I’ve ditched GMail (and all other Google services) some decade ago and have been on ProtonMail and alike alternatives since. I’ll never go back.

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Might be not wrong to preach where the sinners are, but as a google-fanboy why would i even click on such blasphemy? 🤷‍♂️

        Yeah, me too. But I host my own mail since forever. Since google ditched their “don’t be evil”-slogan I avoided them bastards. “Just a search-engine, nothing else” yeah lol sure… I didn’t even buy their stock back then, knowing they will now start to earn. Although I surely didn’t expect THIS.

        • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          4 days ago

          I mean, you and me not, but someone stuck in Google ecossstem, it is relevant for them.

          • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            4 days ago

            Totally. Yet why should they even click on “how to get away from all my essentially important things”-video at all.

            It’s more for those in between. Having the will to move but no fucking clue how.

            Anyhow, can’t hurt either. I just found the irony funny, it was no critique of the post itself or the video.

            • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              3 days ago

              Well, everyone needs a trigger. For me it was a friend who suddenly deleted his Facebook account ages ago. Which made me thinking, why am I even on here (Facebook)… It’s when it started for me. Then Google did some shit that got leaked how they are manipulating things and all the creepy monitoring that came to light and that’s when I started slowly phasing it all out.

              First to go was Google Search. It wasn’t even good, we just all used it. Move to DuckDuckGo was so easy because DDG was jjst so much better and without bullshit personalized searches that fucked everything up. Next big one was GMail that took the most work and effort since I had to move all accounts to new ProtonMail address. But now that it’s done, it was worth the effort. Next to follow was actually moving away from Android phone to iPhone despite hating Apple before because they were just stupid company. Solely just to get away from whole Google thing. That transition made me ditch centralized service dependency. iPhone was just a vessel that powered all the 3rd party services, be it multimedia, cloud storage, emails, messaging, all of it is 3rd party (none was from Google or Apple) and none of it is interconnected in any way. I’ve since returned to Android phone (Samsung where I use their services over Google’s if required) but following same principles. Really only Google thing I even use is GooglePlay store that you need for apps and its account that’s required. I’ve even gone as far that my Location Services has been just entirely disabled for few years now. I only turn it on when using navigation which is rare. Oh and I filter all my devices with DNS level filtering using Hagezi Ultimate filter list which is the most aggressive of them all. Considering I don’t even get any false positives or issues with it tells me all the tracking and spying crap doesn’t even affect me as whole and is just quietly filtered in the background.

              I’ve minimized my online footprint to absolute minimum now and one might thik my life is difficult having to deal with so much privacy things, but it really isn’t. Transition took time and effort, but now that I have system in place it’s zero effort. It just works and moving between platforms has never been easier since I don’t depend on any. I can move from Android phone to iPhone in like 1-2 hours and I’d instantly migrate it all in that time since I just need to install those 3rd party apps and services and login to them. Hell, I can run any of those 3rd party services across Windows, Linux, Android and iPhone all at once since they support all of them. It’s really so cool and gives me so much freedom to just choose anything at any time with minimal effort.

              • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                3 days ago

                Great mate. As for search I suggest searxng. Either selfhosted or one of the many instances. It just anonymizes your queries and aggregate results from many possible searches in one.

                Phones I’d suggest some Linux phone or, irony admitted, a pixel with grapheneos.

                For DNS a self hosted pihole is the tits. Runs on a tiny raspy if you don’t have a home-server.

                I do have one phone with google. But only for all my banks and depots. Totally anonymous account, separate isolated WiFi, it has no idea who owns it or where it is. Sadly those banks consider a google phone I carry around all day “safe” and a PC with an emulated android “not safe”. And no bank ever could explain why.

                But I have time to be that paranoid.

  • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    Just commenting based on the title since I am blocked from YT and also don’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 recipient’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 don’t reveal an email address to the recipient, at least you remain in control over what Google collects and profits from.