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Originally Posted by haertig
Anyone here use Gmail? Or probably any of the other "free" email providers? If you do, you should probably refrain from bringing up privacy concerns to other people.
Yeah, I use Gmail for some things. Not my personal email account though. For example, I use a Gmail account when I sign up for forums (like this one) that require an email address. I also use Gmail when I purchase something online and have to give the retailer an email address. So there are indeed valid uses for privacy-killing free email addresses. One of those uses is to be a spam-sucker account that you don't have to worry much about giving out to potential spammers. I do look for and read/respond to certain emails that come into this Gmail account (the ones that I am expecting to receive). But most of the crap that eventually accumulates is ignored (actually, immediately sent to the trash by filters, before I even see it with my own eyes).
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I use Posteo, a German email provider, I swapped to them when I de-Googled myself. They seem pretty good. They aren't free but it's only a euro a month and they give you various ways to pay - bank transfer, cash!, paypal, credit card or voucher. They are an email provider focused on maximum privacy for their users. If anyone is looking for an alternative email provider I would recommend checking them out.