[ne01]

I second this. Try DuckDuckGo + FastMail and (Safari + Wipr extension for an advertisement free WWW)

I too switched away after being a lifetime Google Advocate: Android, Chromebook, GCP, Linux + Chrome and many, many of their products. Honestly, I don't care about privacy that much I'm just sick and tired of how good Google became at distracting me! Never mind the ads and how I had to use incognito search for anything because if I searched something (e.g. buying a monitor) google keeps suggesting similar stuff to get my attention or suggesting articles on the homepage of Chrome (mostly android).

What was once a simple beautiful tool to find answers, fast. became part of every aspect of my life, trying to get more and more of my attention/time.

Time is gold. Google lost respect for my time and I lost respect for Google.

[jen729w]

Agreed, and a quick shout to migadu.com for email. I’m a long time happy Fastmail customer but Migadu’s offering is interesting and different enough to have a look at.

[52-6F-62]

I’ve been hiding my time with Gmail. Planning my exit.

Fastmail is a leading contender, but thanks for posting Migadu. It does sound interesting.

They offer a lot for a low price, but I wonder how?

I’m intrigued!

[newscracker]

> They offer a lot for a low price, but I wonder how?

They don't respond to queries or requests. I presume that's how. To avoid repeating my comments too many times, let me suggest looking at my other comments on this post.

[jen729w]

Couldn't disagree more. I've mailed them twice and had a personal response within a few hours.

[newscracker]

That’s good to hear. But I haven’t had the luck to hear back from them. So my guess is still that it’s a tiny team with many other priorities than this platform, and so misses responding or acting many a times.