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Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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351 points giuliomagnifico | 5 comments | 22 Aug 25 17:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.704s | source
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selkin ◴[22 Aug 25 18:14 UTC] No.44987784[source]▶
> The problem with email is that everything is transmitted in plain text.

That's not a Gmail problem, and no reason to migrate. Some use cases just don't fit email, and for those, we have other, more fitting platforms.

> So, I went with mailbox.org that still offers integrated PGP encryption, and if you want, you can always use external PGP too (which I was already doing with Gmail).

Ok, so now you have two problems.

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1. charles_f ◴[22 Aug 25 21:06 UTC] No.44989825[source]▶
> That's not a Gmail problem, and no reason to migrate.

It is a problem with Gmail, because they're helping themselves into your email, as was explained by the author in the sentence immediately after the one you quoted:

> Technically, Google can store every message you receive and know everything, and U.S. agencies can request access to that data

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2. joshuamorton ◴[22 Aug 25 21:32 UTC] No.44990084[source]▶
> because they're helping themselves into your email

What, specifically do you mean by this?

3. selkin ◴[22 Aug 25 22:29 UTC] No.44990682[source]▶
(If it's a problem) it is a problem with every Email provider. It is part of the design.
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4. giuliomagnifico ◴[22 Aug 25 23:15 UTC] No.44991113[source]▶
Yes but at least for the TOS, mailbox doesn’t do it, and I’m more relaxed also because I’m paying for the email (they don’t need to sell my data to other services) and the server are hosted in Europe and GDPR compliance.
5. ◴[23 Aug 25 06:21 UTC] No.44993707[source]▶