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by reify 704 days ago
I dont send emails to anyone who has a gmail, googlemail. yahoo mail or microsoft or any of the other careless email providers.

It really is as simple as telling people that I do not reply to emails unless they respect my privacy and use an encrypted privacy oriented email provider.

I use the Protonmail SimpleLogin addon account to send them an annonymous email stating my terms for email correspondence.

It does work. then those same people move permanently to those email providers and start respecting my privacy and their own privacy.

One person at a time.

Its about time we imposed our own values regarding confidentiality and privacy.

you cannot wait for the brainwashed to move away from a life of giving up their privacy

2 comments

How do you behave when someone has an email hosted on a custom domain name? Do you perform some checks to figure out if the service they’re using is up to your standard? And what if I didn’t trust your ProtonMail address? Would you be willing to switch to something else?
Most people I know with custom domains for email use gsuite anyway.

I went the Apple route but it’s very restrictive (easy though).

What do you do when you buy a ticket and the only way of receiving the ticket is by email? It won't be encrypted on their side. Do you just never travel?

What do you do when someone just sends you an email anyway? You have no option to prevent them from sending it.