Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (2014)

Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by highwaylights on Sunday October 23, 2022 @03:26AM (#33305246)

I see this advice (that you should use a custom domain) and it makes me a bit hesitant in that I’m not sure I necessarily trust a registrar more than I trust Google not to allow phishing/hijack/deletion.

That said there’s really two issues if you seperate out the inbox - access to new emails, and access to the historical emails you’ve accumulated. The second can be partially helped by downloading all mail + attachments from the server and keeping a backup.

The first is more complicated either way you look at it.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by psychphysic on Sunday October 23, 2022 @05:35AM (#33305724)

I find thinking about the whole thing far too stressful.

Especially now that so many of my photos and documents are 'backed up' to Google photos and drive.

Balancing the risk of these black swan events is beyond me. Why ever would Google ban me? But they might. Why ever would Tutanota mess up my private domain? Or ban me? But they might!

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