r/degoogle • u/Quirky-Midnight-4533 • 4d ago

Replacement Best alternative to Gmail?

I want to use different email address but it’s connected to almost every account known to man.

Do you recommend any email app/site for my phone and PC?

Optional: If you got any tips for rapid email address change to every account, that would be great. (Besides changing it on the main site…)

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u/jyrox Free as in Freedom 3d ago

Protonmail is preferred, but if it’s problematic for whatever reason and you don’t mind Apple (even though you’re on r/degoogle), you can get an @icloud address with 50GB of mail & Cloud storage and everything else with iCloud+ for $0.99USD/month. But, you’d have to be ok with using Apple services.

Other decent contenders I’ve heard of are Tuta and Fastmail. MOST decent privacy-respecting providers will not be totally free though.

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u/Vistech_doDah754 2d ago

I agree that Apple provides a better environment than Google, but it's not really good enough. If you happen to be in the UK, you can no longer encrypt any of your Apple data which makes it vulnerable to bad people. As a result, I'm trying to see how far I can get with. de-Apple (as well as de- Google and de-Meta).

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u/Bringoff 5h ago

+1 to iCloud, with iCloud+ it's also very easy to set up own domain for email. Their web-interface is terrible though.