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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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What's the best approach to email today? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And what do you actually use? I know the answer is probably self-hosting but maybe there are other solutions for a decent privacy.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The first being you can lift and shift to another email provider very easily.

All alias providers I have seen (including SimpleLogin) allow arbitrary target/"backing" mailboxes.

just get a domain with alias provider and it matters not what email provider you use ever.

Personal domains are nice for "important stuff" that should be tied to your real person.

One of the features of mail aliasing services is it to provide pseudonymity which you cannot achieve if the domain literally contains your real name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have a pseudo domain that has none of my info on it.

It's something along the lines of "thisisspam.com" that forwards to my personal email accounts.

The point is, since I and not the service control my addresses I can take them anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Problem is that this domain (whether it includes your real name or not) is still related to your person as you are the sole user.

If you created accounts at Google, Amazon and Facebook using a schema of [email protected], don't you think they'd be able to tell it's the same person who created those accounts?

With the likes of [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected], that identification vector is simply ruled out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is going to be controversial, but if I was a user of these three scummy sites what you say above isn't the hill I'm willing to die on or care about.

However I have half a dozen domains, I could quite easily add one or two more for dumb shit like this if I wanted to.