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Any free email accounts that have privacy?
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If not then..
ProtonMail (based in Switzerland) has end-to-end encryption and doesn't keep ANY of your ISP info
CounterMail (based in Sweden), stores all their data on CD-ROMs! Doesn't keep ISP info either I think. It's only free for a week anyway.
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MailFence (Belgium) - I like this: Something else to consider here to readjust your trust level is to realize that since Mailfence uses servers in Belgium, it's only through a Belgian court order that the company can be forced to reveal private data
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I really like this sound of TorGuard
They promise not to track your email usage in any way and does not have contact with any government agencies or third parties without a court order.
so you can check these out. TorGuard sounds really good.
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hotseatgames wrote: I haven't been paying attention... what did Yahoo change about their terms?
Yahoo was purchased by Verizon, and Verizon publicly stated that the real value of Yahoo to them was their information on users. Verizon's privacy policies now apply, which are academic because Verizon is using the data internally across all of their divisions to customize advertising on their television connections, offer movie rentals, etc. Saying "we don't share your data" is not terribly compelling when the company itself has a dozen uses for it. Verizon has a camera on the front of all of their cable boxes facing you, recording what's going on in your living room as you watch TV. Now they can add information regarding your habits in Yahoo's services and in your Yahoo email.
Again, all academic, because Yahoo was cracked, more or less meaning that any privacy policy they did have is of no value. Their (your) data is in the wild in bulk.
There is no such thing as email that is private. You can set up your own server, but your ISP (which may well be Verizon) scrapes all the data coming through on the line, or at least can. Verizon does everyone the favor of being honest about it.
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The free level is legit free, no ads and no data tracking. (Unless they are completely lying about everything.) It is pretty bare-bones though and has very limited storage space. Paid versions have the functionality one would expect.
They also run a VPN. A little more expensive than my current one, PIA, but also based out of Switzerland for the stronger privacy laws.
The email and VPN divisions are legally separate companies, so that if anything happens to one then the other is unaffected.
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dysjunct wrote: I’ve been using ProtonMail for a while and like it. Note that it’s only end-to-end encrypted when sending to another ProtonMail account.
The free level is legit free, no ads and no data tracking. (Unless they are completely lying about everything.) It is pretty bare-bones though and has very limited storage space. Paid versions have the functionality one would expect.
They also run a VPN. A little more expensive than my current one, PIA, but also based out of Switzerland for the stronger privacy laws.
The email and VPN divisions are legally separate companies, so that if anything happens to one then the other is unaffected.
Cool. I'm already using PIA too so don't need the VPN.
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MattDP wrote: When it comes to the internet, "free" and "private" tend to be dimetric opposites.
If you're not paying for it, you are the product being sold.
Haha I still remember the priceless expression of a friend when I told him that him playing and doing fairly well on free online shooter with some P2W stuff, is what the developer intended. One of the most challenges of game development? AI. So make people work for free for your game, and have the rich people pay you to hunt them!
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MattDP wrote: When it comes to the internet, "free" and "private" tend to be dimetric opposites.
If you're not paying for it, you are the product being sold.
Haha I still remember the priceless expression of a friend when I told him that him playing and doing fairly well on free online shooter with some P2W stuff, is what the developer intended. One of the most challenges of game development? AI. So make people work for free for your game, and have the rich people pay you to hunt them!
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