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  Helder 5 years ago

  Use disroot, i like it 😉

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  Kevinmc 5 years ago

  It just dawned on me GHCQ stands for Google Company Head Quarters!

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  Sigg3 5 years ago

  @shalimar that metadata is traded already, perfectly legal, and bought. It's fair to assume it ends up at Google HQ too.
  
  If you really want privacy, e-mail is off the table.

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  Kevinmc 5 years ago

  @shalimar great farm analogy!😎

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  Shalimar 5 years ago

  Even if I encrypt everything Gmail still collects the metadata. Yes I know it's for free and I pay with my data but I don't want to end like a data cow on the server farm.

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  Kevinmc 5 years ago

  I use protonmail. Its based in German or Switzerland it's in the small print. encrypted on the server, not transmission. I hardly have spam using it. I haven't looked into the spam settings to tweak them. Just an idea.
  

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  Sigg3 5 years ago

  Continued.
  
  By using Gmail + GPG, Google will only fetch the recipients and timestamps, not e-mail content. It is safe to assume they are getting this information anyway.

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  Sigg3 5 years ago

  This is very hard.
  
  E-mail is only secure in the legal sense (protected by law), and only in some countries. Technically, e-mail is completely open, and even running your own e-mail server will jeopardize your privacy.
  
  My solution? Gmail has excellent spam filter. Use gmail but encrypt your e-mail with GPG. Thunderbird and Evolution provides GnuPG add-ons, I think.
  
  E-mail should have been dead twenty years ago.
  
  (I've had my own e-mail and hosted email services for years. I use Gmail now.)

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  Stolensoul 5 years ago

  Well, apart from blocking the source of the spam, privacy and spam blocking are hard to put together. I believe that most spam lists are creted by gathering stats on the user's mails.
  If your email service lets you create filters you might also try to set up rules that would block certain keywords or so I believe.

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  Shalimar 5 years ago

  Oh I forgot to mention that I want to use a service which respects my privacy.

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  Johnnynull 5 years ago

  Sure. Use Gmail.

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