[Artemix]

GMail -> FastMail -> With the latest shitty AU laws, I'd advise against this provider (speaking as an old customer who really liked the service). https://privacytools.io/ provides a decent e-mail service list

Browser -> Firefox? So you completely drop the Chromium rendering engine (plus, firefox is awesome)

Photos -> what is your need, exactly?

[stephenr]

The laws are shitty but have zero effect on FastMail - they don’t provide an E2E solution so they already have your email unencrypted, no backdoors required.

[duiker101]

FastMail, I don't think those laws affect FM and anyhow I do no need the extreme privacy, just not selling my data. And since I do actually pay for it, I am less worried about that.

Firefox is... ok. I tried using it a few times but I find it a bit clunky for some reason and I do love Vivaldi absolute flexibility.

Photos, what I need is not being Google. Really. And it's so damn hard to find a decent service that is not Google. I am not in the Apple ecosystem so that's out, and all the other services have a bit crappy apps. I tried owncloud but the Android app is really not good enough.

The problem I have with Google is that I occasionally make Android Apps and I already had a strike on my account for an old app, if I were to have more strikes I would risk losing EVERYTHING, photos, emails etc... and that's not something that I am down for.

[BjoernKW]

You can pay for Gmail, too, with G Suite, that is. In fact, G Suite is fully GDPR-compliant. With the paid version they don't sell or mine your data.

[jaden]

Here's FastMail's official statement regarding the Australian laws: https://fastmail.blog/2018/09/10/access-and-assistance-bill/

tl;dr They're fighting it, but they don't see this bill having any additional consequences for our customers.