The version of Microsoft Outlook that's built into Windows 11 is simple and straightforward. Much better than the old Outlook Web Access.
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Just switched to Outlook. Works great on android, and Prospect handles the accounts reasonably well on Ubuntu.
Using DDG is a good step to help protect your privacy; however, it doesn’t stop your ISP or snoops from seeing what you do online. Unless you are using a VPN with military-grade encryption, thinking you can use the Internet without being tracked is not 100% accurate.
To OP: I have used Zoho and thought it was reliable.
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I have Yahoo, had it for well over 20 years
No dispute there. If you're trying to evade the IRS or ATF or whatever, they're going to probably figure you out. But if you're simply trying to limit the flood of information that Google and Facebook and Amazon keep about each of us, the duck browser and protonmail are a very good start. .
Probably so as they always target the biggest audience to improve their odds.
Why the need to delete an account you no longer use ? Just abandon it yourself.
Those are email programs, not providers like the OP is asking about.
They were being used to create scam Craigslist adds and I had no way to access the account and reporting it did little.
How do you know they were being used if it was an account you no longer used ? I wouldn't worry about it or concern myself if it was an "old" account / email that I no longer used.
I've not had any such issues with Gmail... My old Yahoo account on the other hand... That thing got hacked every couple months...friends started getting tons of spam "from me", etc... and i'd have to change the password, activate 2fa, just to have the same thing happen a few months down the road....
after a couple times, i started getting similar emails "from" an ex's Yahoo account... and I'd send her an email that she needed to change HER password again...
it was the only contact we had for a few years, until i just gave up and deleted the yahoo account. haven't heard from her since.
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It is also an email provider. And is a good choice.
My first yahoo email was [email protected]
+1 for Proton mail
I have anything financial or doctor/health related going to my Proton Email. Proton has VPN and storage, etc.
Gmail is reading your email to make money off them. If you are using Gmail at least use a email app like Thunderbird.
Proton is in Switzerland and must adhere to Swiss privacy laws. Much better than US.
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I have had a yahoo mail account I have used for 20 years for junk. Its the lesser evil of the big tech IMHO - who simply view me as a data stream to be monetized.
I use my work email for important stuff. The servers are self hosted, secure, redundant and off shore. I realize many don't have this option.
I have looked several times at getting a proton mail account but then I would have 3 to manage. If I didn't have the work account to use, I would go that way.
Yes, I realize I am being tracked online, I just don't need to make it easier for big tech to profit from it.
I use my work email for important stuff. The servers are self hosted, secure, redundant and off shore. I realize many don't have this option.
I have looked several times at getting a proton mail account but then I would have 3 to manage. If I didn't have the work account to use, I would go that way.
Yes, I realize I am being tracked online, I just don't need to make it easier for big tech to profit from it.
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I would recommend that you get your own domain name on Ionos.com - it comes with email hosting included. Otherwise get your own domain on gandi.net and then pay 3.99 a month for theirs.
That doesn't solve anything
Protonmail. They However don't keep your password in a database meaning it's much more secure but your email password can't be retrieved if you forgot it.My current ISP is ancient and unreliable and they hardly support it.
I don't want gmail.
I have cable internet, works fine. But want to just add a new safe, reliable email service and move my important stuff there. Like BITOG
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Just to touch on this a little further, most passwords can't be retrieved even in systems like gmail. But protonmail encrypts your information and only gives you the key, which means even if a 3 letter agency tries to force them to give them your data, protonmail can't actually give them anything other than the encrypted data and the agency needs to try and hack/decrypt the encrypted data which is not exactly trivial, and might be impossible.
But also if we send an email from protonmail to a guy who is using gmail, then gmail gets my email content anyway and can probably still build a profile on me that way.
At a certain point though, if you're a big enough target it doesn't really matter. Love this little XKCD comic which always fits in these discussions:
