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Google is taking over your Gmail inbox with AI (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Anyone got any good recommendations to replace Gmail that's free, privacy focused, easy to use, and not mired in controversy?

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Here: https://purchasewithpurpose.io/category/email/

IMHO:

  • Infomaniak is Swiss, not that private, but they have a great "office suite" on the web and they do web hosting too IIRC
  • Fastmail is misleading because it's Australian (bad for privacy) and they host the emails in the USA
  • Tuta is what I use, they still don't have a "drive" yet but it's supposedly coming this year

And the site forgot to mention Runbox, Mailbox, and a few others. Most should be stable and cheap anyway.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the link and the list! I'm def leaning towards Tutamail.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

Been a huge fan of Tuta. Barebones but good enough!

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use tuta mail. I'm happy with it, run my own domain, I can easily send symmetrically encrypted stuff to people to don't use tuta, it runs on all my devices.

[–] scttgard@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I made the switch a couple of years ago and Tuta is flawless even on Linux. Unless they do something stupid I will be sticking with them.

[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Mailbox.org has been pretty good for me this past few years. They also offer an open source online office suite.

[–] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven't heard anything bad about tutamail but I'm sure someone will be here in 2.5 nanoseconds to correct me. And to be fair I haven't used it myself.

[–] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I tried Tutamail for a while and it's not bad... just really clunky. It would have been solid fifteen years ago.

I've been trying to find something better than Fastmail, but it's just so good.

[–] scttgard@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I left Fastmail after 20 years over the Union busting crap. Tuta is better.

[–] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Tuta is better from a moral standpoint, but as a webmail service, it's super janky. I really tried to like it, but I just could not do it.

[–] jaredwhite@humansare.social 2 points 2 months ago

I've been using Fastmail for many years now. It's been rock solid. No complaints.

[–] No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I changed to proton mail two days ago because it was the duck duck go result with the most users

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Also a great example of a service "mired in controversy". Some (including me) consider those controversies bad enough to avoid them completely. The CEO openly agreeing with and actually supporting Trump is just one of the more egregious ones.

For EU citizens it's also noteworthy that it isn't actually hosted in the EU (but Switzerland).

Edit: just to be clear, obviously a lot better than Google. But which service these days isn't? So that's a pretty low bar. So why settle for that instead of picking something without all the baggage?