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Yeah, his requirements for an email provider are well above what most people need.
Email is not a secure means of communication in most cases. If the recipient isn't encrypting, then your communications to them are vulnerable anyway. And in the vast majority of cases, they probably aren't.
Really, the best thing about getting a more privacy conscious provider is not giving all your data over to Google.
Yeah, I switched to Posteo mainly so all of my emails aren't scanned by an advertising company.
The main thing I dislike about the encrypted email providers is that I can't use my own client, I'm stuck with whatever features they want to give me.
Yeah and getting away from Google is worth so much actually. People don't seem to realize how important it is to simply not use Google and block their tracking scripts (on the web), and don't use their free email service, naturally.