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Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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mantra2 ◴[] 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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robin_reala ◴[] No.44993936[source]
The big problem with Fastmail is that they’re a US-based host, so non-US citizens still get zero privacy.
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amaccuish ◴[] No.44994794[source]
Fastmail is australian.
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1. robin_reala ◴[] No.44995007[source]
Yes, but they host in the US.