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What's a good alternative to Gmail? (meganice.online)

submitted 3 years ago by i_am_hungry@meganice.online to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Trying to de-google and looking for an alternative to Gmail.

Don't mind if it's a paid service if it's robust.

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[–] tycho@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Been using protonmail for my main email for three years, never had one issue. But I'm in Europe, maybe in the US it's different?

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[–] FancyFeaster@lemmy.fail 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I’m more talking global purchases. Just the email will probs be ok but if you purchase using that email and a vpn it raises flags.

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[–] shadow@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 3 years ago

This has happened exactly once to me, and it was the VPN, and not the email address.

Paid plan folks can also make use of simplelogin.io

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