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Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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351 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 22 Aug 25 17:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.261s | source
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mantra2 ◴[22 Aug 25 18:02 UTC] No.44987637[source]▶
I started the get itchy about so much of my life sitting on Google about 5 years ago, so I decided to take the leap to Fastmail and haven’t looked back.

Didn’t need to do anything special for the migration. The in house importer they offer pulled over 80GB in a day and I was set from there.

Fastmail isn’t going to give you end to end encryption - but - I think just shedding a major Google service is a massive win privacy-wise.

I remember briefly looking into Proton but the search was awful.

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1. pndy ◴[22 Aug 25 18:33 UTC] No.44988064[source]▶
> I started the get itchy about so much of my life sitting on Google

For me and my partner was enough when Google started collecting info about purchases/delivery orders on gmail and dumping it in some separated page without any consent nor notification.

We moved to Proton but once they changed branding and starting introducing additional services beside mailbox we knew they enter milking-out path. Their newest AI plaything was reason to leave.