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[–] dacookingsenpai@lemme.discus.sh 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

While I agree on this, I think Ungoogled Chromium could be a soft way to degoogle yourself while maybe looking for complete replacements. It took me almost 2 weeks to degoogle me almost totally, at the beginning having a minimum of compatibility is nice

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The only Google thing holding me back from full degoogling is YouTube, but with how garbage the platform is becoming, especially with the algorithm just going berserk and it probably not being long until I start being affected by the adblock-block, I think moving away from it is only going to be easier than ever before.

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (6 children)

serious question: what do for email if you've been a gmail user for .... (checks notes) ... almost 20 years? self hosted?

honest question. I'm interested, but really have no idea what my options are when I've had the same email address for half my life / all of my adult life.

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Proton Mail as others have suggested is the easy and privacy friendly solution, and probably set an auto forwarding rule from your gmail account to your new Proton Mail.

Otherwise I haven't self hosted my own email but from my previous attempts it seemed like it's quite involved

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Protonmail does have a problem with often being classified as a temporary email provider. Some websites refuse to allow registrations using protonmail emails. Solution is to not use those websites.

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I'm yet to run into that myself (2+ year user of it) but I would believe that

[–] DrinkMonkey@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fastmail with a custom domain. It’s great, and has a nice migration tool for moving everything over from Gmail. Also integrates nicely with 1Password for personalized email addresses for each service I sign up for, which I can nuke as needed if needed.

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

awesome, thanks for that! I'll look into it.

[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I personally use mailbox.org for emails and anonaddy for aliases

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

mailbox already has aliases and temporary addresses right

[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but I don't find them as convenient to use

[–] dacookingsenpai@lemme.discus.sh 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Countermail.com if you manage to get an invite

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Very cool. Thanks

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Not married to my email and I bought my own domain.
The only hard part is switching all accounts to the new domain (and finding out that some IT/dev departments decided that changing emails doesnt happen at all).

I pay a company a bit too much money so I don't have to worry about self hosting.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Self hosting email is pretty much impossible nowadays. You have to use your hosting service servers at a minimum. But a dedicated email service will probably have better spam handling (although that's possibly not as bad as it once was).

[–] dacookingsenpai@lemme.discus.sh 5 points 11 months ago

Since I feel you, and since I have a lot of nice subs on youtube, I feel like suggesting something like Piped as a privacy focus frontend or, if you are more of a standalone app person, FreeTube as a privacy focus client.

Technically we are still using YouTube, but at least there is less food for the algo.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Or just use Firefox...?