Hello, sorry to bother you all, but I wanted to know if anyone knew of a non-invasive email provider if possible with high privacy settings ? I know, I am asking for the moon
My "non-serious" email adresses got burned one after each other (hacked, then other provider kept asking for my phone number).
Seriously they are annoying with the phone numbers I DON'T WANNA GIVE MY PHONE NUMBER TO AN INTERNET CONGLOMERATE GRAAAH
So anyway, what do you think about all this ? internet privacy and all ? I'm curious about other people's opinions since I'm a privacy nut (ghostery, noscript a separate email adress with fake name for the smartphone since I can't avoid google there ^^)
Internet privacy and email adress
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Re: Internet privacy and email adress
If you want something good you need to pay for it. Gmail is "free" because they make a profit from your data.
These are all pretty good: https://www.lifewire.com/best-secure-em ... es-4136763 or if you are sufficiently competent (or spend 30 minutes on google), you can host your own mail server.
Internet privacy is valuable but takes a lot of time and sacrifices. The biggest thing you can do, you've already done - use script blockers to stop services from tracking you. Personally, I don't care enough to do much beyond using script blockers. I'm comfortable understanding the exchange - I get to use services such as Google and Facebook for "free" because I'm paying them with my data.
A bigger concern to me is when companies like Facebook provide "internet" in places that don't have access to it, such as Nigeria. https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-face ... -internet/
"Galpaya, a researcher (and now CEO) with LIRNEasia, a think tank, called Rohan Samarajiva, her boss at the time, to tell him what she had discovered. “It seemed that in their minds, the Internet did not exist; only Facebook,” he concluded."
Scary stuff. Which is why net neutrality is really important to push. We don't want our internet providers to control what we can access.
These are all pretty good: https://www.lifewire.com/best-secure-em ... es-4136763 or if you are sufficiently competent (or spend 30 minutes on google), you can host your own mail server.
Internet privacy is valuable but takes a lot of time and sacrifices. The biggest thing you can do, you've already done - use script blockers to stop services from tracking you. Personally, I don't care enough to do much beyond using script blockers. I'm comfortable understanding the exchange - I get to use services such as Google and Facebook for "free" because I'm paying them with my data.
A bigger concern to me is when companies like Facebook provide "internet" in places that don't have access to it, such as Nigeria. https://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-face ... -internet/
"Galpaya, a researcher (and now CEO) with LIRNEasia, a think tank, called Rohan Samarajiva, her boss at the time, to tell him what she had discovered. “It seemed that in their minds, the Internet did not exist; only Facebook,” he concluded."
Scary stuff. Which is why net neutrality is really important to push. We don't want our internet providers to control what we can access.