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Quest To Get Out of the Google Trap, pt 1

Ryan Haber on December 02, 2020

I'm working to get some of my life out of the Google Trap. I'm starting with email. It seems like there are the most choices. There's protonmail.c...
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I personally really like Fastmail. It looks like it's $10/m for 100GB.

But it has a lot of nice features I really like. Just to list a few big ones for me:

  • Can create email aliases to use different email addresses for different things.
  • Can forwards emails from different aliases to other email addresses (unique to each alias).
  • Good support for FIDO U2F keys with the ability to remove your phone as a fallback device.
  • Solid mobile app that exposes quite a few features (no offline support though).

But it does not support encrypted messages, that I know of (though there's probably a way to setup GPG or something).