What other email services are there to use? I’d like to get away from using gmail. Are there any “privacy first” services available?
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Proton is a good privacy focused company. They have mail, cloud drive, and a vpn. Check them out.
I like proton mail. With email the in transit and at rest are what you have to look at. When you send an email it might be end to end encrypted but is the reader you use keeping a copy
I use Proton. They're in Switzerland so they adhere to strict Swiss privacy laws (supposedly).
The duckduckgo app has an email forwarding service that generates new email addresses. You can use that when you sign up to various websites. That guards against the case their email list gets leaked (or sold)
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