Tell HN: Google requiring phone number to log into Chromebook

Re:Tell HN: Google requiring phone number to log into Chrome... by newscracker on Sunday September 09, 2018 @12:10PM (#17946511)

Switch to a paid service that doesn't depend on your data or on ads for revenue and survival.

I would mainly recommend posteo.de because of what the company stands for and its cheap pricing. Other options are runbox.com and mailbox.org. All these providers support IMAP too. So you can use any email client on any platform, or the web interface, to access email.

Protonmail, recommended by some others here, doesn't support IMAP for free accounts (so you can't take your mail out easily if you want to move elsewhere). For paid accounts, it has a "bridge" software that needs to be installed and running. This is available only on Windows and Mac. For Linux, the FAQ [1] still says at multiple places that it'll be available in "early 2018", while we're already nearing the fourth calendar quarter of 2018.

[1]: https://protonmail.com/bridge/faq#c8

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Re:Tell HN: Google requiring phone number to log into Chrome... by auslander on Sunday September 09, 2018 @06:48PM (#17948219)

Or simply buy Apple and use iCloud for emails and data

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Re:Tell HN: Google requiring phone number to log into Chrome... by beamatronic on Monday September 10, 2018 @12:27AM (#17949379)

Except they silently filter email messages based on certain keywords

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Re:Tell HN: Google requiring phone number to log into Chrome... by auslander on Monday September 10, 2018 @01:35AM (#17949612)

Emm, they do what? Please clarify.

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