You could also get a private E-Mail address that doesn’t scan all your mails to make money out of it. Google tries to enprison you in it’s ecosystem by “facilitating” logins and so on. If you don’t pay with money, you pay with your data.
Gmail and MS also make other providers jump through crazy hoops too to let users create a new email, lest they be flagged as a “spam” provider and blacklisted by the 2 services.
This is a pet peeve of mine and I’m sorry to be taking it out on you.
Protecting your data is the biggest exercise in futility in the modern era. You are using Lemmy. I don’t care what services you pay for, someone has your data. They in turn sell it to a third party, who also sells it. The world has your data and paying money to hide your data from google is really stupid.
Unless you live in an outhouse in the woods with no internet, your data no longer belongs to you. Do you think your ISP doesn’t have your data and already sold it? Do you think your bank doesn’t have your data and already sold it? Let me guess you pay Generic VPN $10/month to protect your data. Oh you bought the Fairphone and paid extra for next day shipping so you could release your data from the clutches of google. Oh wait, you use Linux and personally hand picked every line of code so your data won’t ever be stolen.
Enough with the crap about protecting your data. It’s a scam and the money you spend every month on data protection is better spent on a fleshlight.
You could also get a private E-Mail address that doesn’t scan all your mails to make money out of it. Google tries to enprison you in it’s ecosystem by “facilitating” logins and so on. If you don’t pay with money, you pay with your data.
mailbox.org
posteo.net
Both are great alternatives for only a couple of bucks a month.
Gmail and MS also make other providers jump through crazy hoops too to let users create a new email, lest they be flagged as a “spam” provider and blacklisted by the 2 services.
The modern internet sucks.
Also tutamail
This is a pet peeve of mine and I’m sorry to be taking it out on you.
Protecting your data is the biggest exercise in futility in the modern era. You are using Lemmy. I don’t care what services you pay for, someone has your data. They in turn sell it to a third party, who also sells it. The world has your data and paying money to hide your data from google is really stupid.
Unless you live in an outhouse in the woods with no internet, your data no longer belongs to you. Do you think your ISP doesn’t have your data and already sold it? Do you think your bank doesn’t have your data and already sold it? Let me guess you pay Generic VPN $10/month to protect your data. Oh you bought the Fairphone and paid extra for next day shipping so you could release your data from the clutches of google. Oh wait, you use Linux and personally hand picked every line of code so your data won’t ever be stolen.
Enough with the crap about protecting your data. It’s a scam and the money you spend every month on data protection is better spent on a fleshlight.