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Re:“We are only collecting the list of applications you have... by cm2187 on Saturday May 30, 2015 @03:23AM (#9629382)
To me that's even worse. You are stuck with your ISP. What if you move home to a place where this ISP isn't available?

There are commercial email providers in jurisdictions that do respect privacy. And it usually only costs the price of a couple of coffees per year.

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Re:“We are only collecting the list of applications you have... by timthorn on Saturday May 30, 2015 @03:55AM (#9629435)
You're not locked in if you own the DNS registration.
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Re:“We are only collecting the list of applications you have... by e12e on Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:12AM (#9630412)
This is an important point many overlook (despite being aware of Google Apps for Work (nee Business)) -- registering a personal domain in order to have at least one email that will follow you for as long as you want -- does not mean you have to run your own incomming/outgoing email servers!

Most domain registrars will forward email for free, and most offer some form of cheap, but reasonable email service (smtp+imap).

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Re:“We are only collecting the list of applications you have... by Animats on Saturday May 30, 2015 @01:28PM (#9630893)
Right. I have several domains, and my email comes in via them. The IMAP server just aggregates them.
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Re:“We are only collecting the list of applications you have... by Nullabillity on Saturday May 30, 2015 @05:00AM (#9629538)
You're still depending on the ISP's archives.
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Re:“We are only collecting the list of applications you have... by TheOtherHobbes on Saturday May 30, 2015 @07:26AM (#9629802)
Building your own Postfix server isn't hard. (It's certainly not easy, but it's not too hard either.)

If you're paying someone for hosting anyway it's a few days of extra work from a cold start to set up a server on Linode or Digital Ocean and become your own ISP/hosting co.

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Re:“We are only collecting the list of applications you have... by kuschku on Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:39AM (#9630501)
Remember that Digital Oceans’ ToS allow them to access "all and any information" in case they "consider it necessary".
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