[sandreas]

Google may be a privacy issue... So I would love to have the possibility to prevent anyone putting my info in their contacts in Google.

I personally use a paid E-Mail service (mailbox.org) and a self hosted nextcloud.

The APP myphoneexplorer can be used to sync offline.

[newscracker]

> Google may be a privacy issue... So I would love to have the possibility to prevent anyone putting my info in their contacts in Google.

This can be quite difficult to achieve. The moment your contact information is given to someone using Android, it will be synced up with Google (and known by most Google properties).

> I personally use a paid E-Mail service (mailbox.org)

May I know how long you’ve been using it and how the experience has been? Are you using it with a custom domain?

[sandreas]

I use it for more than two years now and it has been a great experience.

Disclaimer: I use this email only for friends and family, told them not to tell anybody and did not register ANY internet account with it - so no spam, no unwanted emails and no shit.

[devjab]

I don’t know if it is like this in many countries but in Denmark we have a public registry of addresses, and I’d assume Google (and others) simply pull from that. There are ways to avoid being on the public list but most people aren’t doing that, and if your parents didn’t do it for you then you’ll have been in the registry at one point.

I guess it won’t tell big tech who your friends are. At least until you talk with them regularly through online channels.

[sandreas]

I'm not afraid of having parts of my information online in general. Having a website often needs an imprint with a big part of your data. It's more like the information only friends and family know of and which are way more important in many senses.

- phone - this is kind of ok, because phone spam is less common

- email - to prevent spam

- birthday - this one is quite critical, because here in germany it is a common way to verify authentication on phone calls by insurance companies

- job-details, contact relationships, etc.

I doubt that these are all in the public registry.

[meowster]

Yep. I can avoid saying yes to all of the apps that want to access my contacts, but I can't prevent everyone I know, from doing the same :-(