Re:Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?
by contem on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:18PM
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Stay on GMail, but don't log-in to the web interface. Instead use Thunderbird. That way you can read your mail without being forced logged-in to search or video.
Google has been making this harder and harder though (now calling Thunderbird insecure, and requiring you to allow insecure app's in the options), but it is a good canary in the coal mine: Once I can't avoid this unified/universal log-in, I'll know Google turned me into an adversary.
With this setup I deem Gmail to be the best service for privacy and security.
Re:Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?
by dkhenry on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:23PM
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I recently migrated to staying on GMail but using offlineimap and a program called notmuch to view and send mail. In this world I have all my mail locally, GMail is just an IMAP endpoint to store my mail.
Google has been making this harder and harder though (now calling Thunderbird insecure, and requiring you to allow insecure app's in the options), but it is a good canary in the coal mine: Once I can't avoid this unified/universal log-in, I'll know Google turned me into an adversary.
With this setup I deem Gmail to be the best service for privacy and security.