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Hi everybody. Many times I’ve been confused about which email provider I should choose, and now I’m in a such situation again. I already have a Tutanota mail account and it seemed ok for me, but now I need one more account and Tutanota offers only one for free. After some searching, I met this comparison and I find it interesting. It doesn’t say good things about Tutanota, it doesn’t say good things about the most of email providers, too. It concludes:
It is very worrying how many providers pretend to be privacy based but turn out to be anything but – even actively trying to compromise it. No matter, there still exist a few good guys such as Riseup, Disroot and Autistici. If you managed to sign up for all of those – you could get the full set of Internet tools – E-mail, XMPP, VPN, cloud storage and web hosting! If you can’t or don’t want to get into those (perhaps disagreeing with their principles) – the second best option is paying for a Posteo account. StartMail and CounterMail look pretty OK but are also paid. A few galaxies further you find Dismail and Cock.li – if that wasn’t clear, it means I recommend those only as a last resort.
Here, anticapitalista, “shouts out” for Riseup, too. I suppose that it would be my first choice. Unhappily (but not unreasonably) Riseup asks from me to have an invitation code. Disroot seems to be down. Autistici asks from me to explain my reasons. As for Dismail, even if I overlook the somewhat unclear issue about metadata, I have to ask for email activation and not expect an immediate response. All this is a bit of an unpleasant situation, isn’t it?
- This topic was modified 3 years ago by andfree.
xinomilo
+1 for riseup, autistici. (haven’t used disroot).
it seems the only ones caring about user privacy, are “radical service providers” [1] usually collectives-volunteers. not corporations.
shouldn’t surprise anyone, corps want to make money and the best way is by selling our data/privacy…
on the other hand these collectives have a specific policy, that is NOT giving secure accounts to anyone, but to people working for social change, grassroots activists.. that’s why they ask for reasons, and it makes sense, activists have the real need, in the age of global surveillance by states/zillion dollar corps.
solution for hobbyists, is to run their own services, but that needs skill, and can be frustrating for eg. email, where the gmail/outlook cabal is blacklisting most providers.
but, i’d suggest a look at libreho.st also, for some libre-run services.[1] https://riseup.net/en/security/resources/radical-servers
” Anti-capitalist, anti-hierarchy, autonomous, feminist, or radical server projects, revolutionary collectives which provide free or mutual aid services to radical and grassroots activists.”
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