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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)
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[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Proton Mail as others have suggested is the easy and privacy friendly solution, and probably set an auto forwarding rule from your gmail account to your new Proton Mail.

Otherwise I haven't self hosted my own email but from my previous attempts it seemed like it's quite involved

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Protonmail does have a problem with often being classified as a temporary email provider. Some websites refuse to allow registrations using protonmail emails. Solution is to not use those websites.

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I'm yet to run into that myself (2+ year user of it) but I would believe that