Advice Request Looking for a new offshore email provider?

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

But now? They are over the top... It's all marketing fluff for them now. The hype level and their excessive promotion of privacy and security absolutely smells fishy. Every website talking about secure email services the comments get bombarded by people, all using female names, extorting the virtues of Protonmail.

Obviously disguised marketing.

 

[notabot]

Also, another big reason not to use Gmail type services. If you get banned from one platform they can (and sometimes will) ban you from others, and hence, lock you out of your email. People really need to learn to not do this.

Some Markiplier fans had their Google Accounts banned due to YouTube emote spam

Some fans of Markiplier this week have been banned from their entire Google Account due to spamming emotes on a YouTube stream that encouraged emotes.

9to5google.com

In addition, Google may start banning adblock users.

Watch out! YouTube could ban your account if you block ads

Watch out! YouTube could ban your account if you block ads, the world's most popular online video platform has changed its terms and conditions of service

www.gizchina.com

It's time to kick Google to the curb.

That's imo the strong case for moving out of Google services, their security is great but someone who has everything with Google, given that they do ban users, risks losing everything.

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

That's imo the strong case for moving out of Google services, their security is great but someone who has everything with Google, given that they do ban users, risks losing everything.

if they are stupid and use their main account to do things against the rules.

 

[ForgottenSeer 78429]

if they are stupid and use their main account to do things against the rules.

Watch out! YouTube could ban your account if you block ads
Does using Adguard desktop help?

 

[notabot]

Watch out! YouTube could ban your account if you block ads
Does using Adguard desktop help?

stupid like this NY academic

I like it when people mind a valid court order to read their emails but at the same time it's a-ok for a company to ban access to emails, thankfully this is illegal to just ban like that access to emails in most jurisdictions in Europe.

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

if they are stupid and use their main account to do things against the rules.

Fake accounts FTW.

Speaking of fake Google Accounts, a method I used to use was to install Chromium OS (Free) on a cheap $40 laptop, then use it to register a stack of fake accounts as ChromiumOS doesn't require phone authentication. The other trick some use is to put you are under 13, Google doesn't require authentication because of age related privacy regulations.

I think I have 3-4 fake accounts still unused from the last batch of a dozen I made with ChromiumOS.

Facebook is easy to fake. It's ML systems look for 'traits' of fake accounts like no profile photo, or reused profile photo. Naming conventions. Amount of friends. Cross references with real locations from other sources. Very easy to fake. Go to VK (Russian Facebook) grab a photo of a random Russian person FB/Google haven't indexed and they are unknown to the world mostly, look up some random persons name somewhere, use that photo, then invite a bunch of random people as friends. Then use VPN to connect with it's location set to the guy on whitepages you looked up.

 

[Handsome Recluse]

Go to VK (Russian Facebook) grab a photo of a random Russian person FB/Google haven't indexed and they are unknown to the world mostly

Isn't there a site that make new faces?

 

[Threadripper]

Isn't there a site that make new faces?

Stability AI

AI by the people for the people. We are building the foundation to activate humanity's potential.

thispersondoesnotexist.com

 

[Handsome Recluse]

Stability AI

AI by the people for the people. We are building the foundation to activate humanity's potential.

thispersondoesnotexist.com

Yes! Now I can also not exist.

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

Stability AI

AI by the people for the people. We are building the foundation to activate humanity's potential.

thispersondoesnotexist.com

This is absolutely fantastic! Basically as I said, I just grab some random unknown dude from the backwoods of Russia from VK that is unknown anywhere but this is way better.

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

This is absolutely fantastic! Basically as I said, I just grab some random unknown dude from the backwoods of Russia from VK that is unknown anywhere but this is way better.

VK isn't so unknown, at least in Asia, LOL. About this Ai face-generator, it would be even better if they gave you several different photos and some with outside backgrounds.

 

[SerialCart]

If you are looking for a free service then >>> ProtonMail.com

If you are looking for a premium service with high security:

- Find a good hosting provider and host your own domain/email etc.
-or-
-
Get a small cloud server powered by. FreeBSD+DirectAdmin

 

[Boring]

Luckily my main provider (and soon only one) for secured email is Msgsafe.


The principle of using encrypted mails/messengers is to hide from everyone, government and other intelligence organizations included.
If not, and just required to have a safe email provider, I would just use Gmail which is secure enough against normal people who don't have the authority to force my emails to be disclosed.

I use Msgsafe because I don't want any law enforcement agency to read them.

After ditching Protonmail, now it is Tutanota turn. Those two are bullshitters, such a shame claiming to offer full privacy while they give access/backdoors to authorities...

Having anonymity and privacy in our time becomes an almost impossible task for the non-initiate...

As I often said in various forums, if you don't do activist/criminal/border-illegal stuff, dont bother deploying anonymity/privacy tools, too much an hassle. Just enjoy internet on Windows, common services are safe enough.

@Umbra

if there is any other app (android) that we can use for "MSGsafe"?

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

@Umbra

if there is any other app (android) that we can use for "MSGsafe"?

not in my knowledge, they had an official Android app in beta version, but they removed it...not sure why , maybe the development cost wasn't worth the gain, or they faced some technical issues...

 

[Outpost]

@Umbra

if there is any other app (android) that we can use for "MSGsafe"?

I'm not sure if it works with MSGsafe (in theory it should), why don't you try with FairEmail?

"open source, privacy friendly email app for Android"

(FairEmail - Open source, privacy friendly email app for Android)

 

[Boring]

I'm not sure if it works with MSGsafe (in theory it should), why don't you try with FairEmail?

"open source, privacy friendly email app for Android"

(FairEmail - Open source, privacy friendly email app for Android)

Hi Outpost
thank you, i will read up on that.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

You have Tutanota
Zoho Mail
Mailo.com (French)

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

You have Tutanota

not anymore, Tutanota will disclose your datas to authorities.

Gerichtsurteil: Sicherer E-Mail-Dienst Tutanota muss Kundendaten preisgeben

Ausgerechnet ein E-Mail-Provider, der mit hoher Privatsphäre wirbt, muss Ermittlern in Einzelfällen Kunden-E-Mails unverschlüsselt zugänglich machen.

www.heise.de

 

[Divine_Barakah]

What about Posteo?

 

[Tiamati]

not anymore, Tutanota will disclose your datas to authorities.

Gerichtsurteil: Sicherer E-Mail-Dienst Tutanota muss Kundendaten preisgeben

Ausgerechnet ein E-Mail-Provider, der mit hoher Privatsphäre wirbt, muss Ermittlern in Einzelfällen Kunden-E-Mails unverschlüsselt zugänglich machen.

www.heise.de

Wow!