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Free email that’s not gmail
1 points by theolds 2823 days ago
Where would go to get a free email address? One that isn’t going to scraped.
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otriv 2822 days ago
You should use PGP so your messages can't be read. When signing up for services I try to use a new email for every service so that one email can't be used to track me. Besides that the ones I use: cock.li, elude.in, protonmail.com, danwin1210.me, and a few others. These all work when registering through Tor.

That should be good to start you off.

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moviuro 2823 days ago
Why free though? Renting a domain can be done for cheap (~20USD/y); and email management is a real service with its own set of challenges. Why would anyone do that 100% free?
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theolds 2823 days ago
Trying to give fixed income seniors trusted free options to create additional email addresses. They are freaked out about Gmail. Not sure what it would take to create such a service.
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zero_by_divide 2823 days ago
"If you aren't paying, then you aren't the customer. You're the product."
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theolds 2823 days ago
Exactly. I was sort of hoping there was some altruistic nonprofit out there offering this service thst I didn’t know about.
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zero_by_divide 2823 days ago
I use Protonmail. It's encrypted and stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protonmail
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