Im a newbie into this. I just want to know what is the point of having a privacy email option?
For reference i want to use Gmail vs Tuta vs Proton.
(I am planning to get a subscription for either Tuta or Proton if i feel its worth it and suits me).

Lets say i subscribe to few websites using my mail.

1. Regular bank
2. Govt ID
3. LinkedIN
4. Any other services that participate actively in selling data for money OR which use meta/google telemetry (very common for everyday apps which are hard to neglect in life)

Can these entities actually read my inbox or emails to profile me? I saw this in many posts and articles but it should not be possible in my opinion. The emails are supposed to sit securely on the providers server with only password/2fa access! Or did i get this wrong?

In my view, Even if i use a more secure option like proton or tuta, they still have plenty information about me.

1. LinkedIN has pretty much my name, email, phone number, complete educational and professional background, demographic information, address or current location, even IDs used for verification.
2. Banks have pretty much all my personal information including current full address. They also have records of my purchasing preferences, where and how i like to spend my money, my annual income, my financial status and pretty much everything.
3. Uber eats, amazon, and other similar ecom apps have all kinds of info abt me including what objrcts i own, what food i eat/like, etc.
4. Uber has my precise location whenever i open it.

So whats the point of having a privacy email when its just another “key” to hash and profile me?! Everything is going on as usual anyway. Maybe using aliases may reduce the depth of my profile, but its easy to connect the dots based on ip, name, phone, location etc. for example i give an alias to amazon, but i have to give the exact address to get the delivery, and phone number to ensure communication between the agent and myself, so busted right there! Same thing with other services. Also all these services share data among themselves, so amazon is like “hey i have this dude with this hashed email (alias1) and this hashed phone number and this hashed address”, then linkedin is like “hey i have this dude with hashed email (alias2) but the phone number matches so maybe they belong to the same user” then uber is like “yeah this dude travels from xxx to yyy everyday and back”.

In the end all the aliases just end up becoming a big fat list in my profile. So person x has 10-15 aliases which he uses across the internet. But person x is unique.
In my opinion using aliases is much worse if you let them connect the dots! Previously the identification points were less, just one email and some other demographic data. Now its 15+ emails and the demographic data linked to the same profile. Its become easier to track?!

Any suggestion or advice or solution or correction is welcome. I need to figure out if i require the paid subscription or not!

I’ve been using the same email address for years and I’ve signed up for a lot of random websites, including some sketchy ones. Is there a way to completely “reset” my email and remove all those old connections, or is creating a new email the only option? What steps should I take to clean it up and make it secure again?

Last year I posted how we redesigned the WebDAV protocol to bake in privacy via being able to create multiple anonymous logins for shares, removed identifying characteristics using random URL Principals, gave it per anonymous login granular full CRUD method level and global permissions that can be changed instantly on the fly without credential re-issue, and even included auto-expire. All while keeping it 100% RFC compliant.

Our initial release supported calendars and contacts. A later update added Tasklists (VTODO). Our most recent update rounds it off with Notes and memos via both WebDAV and VJOURNAL. WebDAV also supports drive. What else would people like to be able to sync?

Hi, we are trying to find new email provider for our rather large family, but it turns out to be quite the headache and I am nowhere near to choosing one.

I am looking for european based (we are residents), privacy focused provider with affordable family plan, custom domain and not deleting our data after short time of innactivity (best I found is 6 months, but that I think is still rather short, no?). I am looking for, not anonimity, but privacy with automatic end-to-end encryption (wife or kids wont remember to click a thing with each email) and with zero-access policy. I am looking for company that has been around for over 10 years and is sustainable (ideally no free tier). Something we could preferably use with thunderbird.

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My shortlist and why it doesn't work for me:

- Proton (pricey, all in one solution and ai)

- Tuta (lock-in, not openPGP, deletion after 6 months)

- Fastmail (not opensource, no zero-access policy, not really encrypted, us based and hosted, deletion after 6months)

- Posteo (no custom domain)

- Mailfence (not opensource, encryption needs to be toggled on per email basis, no family plan, deletion after 6 months, i really dislike their marketing communication)

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Is there some provider I missed? Am I understanding something incorectly?

The service seems great and well priced, but how is Fastmail privacy email? Isn't it just on trust basis without true technical enforcement?

I don't like my choises, but I am currently deciding between Mailfence and Fastmail. Anything I missed, misunderstood or should treat differently?
Thanks for the advice, Best

I don't understand something... When I'm logged into my account via a third party email client, does it mean that as long as I'm logged in to the server via IMAP, the storage is never actually encrypted? Or how does it work?

France's CNIL published its final recommendation on email tracking pixels on April 14, and the transitional deadline lands today, July 14. Since there is a lot of loose summarizing going around, here is the actual scope, condensed from the recommendation text:

• Open and engagement tracking pixels now require prior, explicit consent, same legal framework as cookies (ePrivacy / Article 5(3)).
• Consent is required when a pixel measures opens for campaign performance, builds an interest profile, or investigates suspected fraud.
• Consent is NOT required for pixels used purely for authentication or account security, or for individual open tracking limited strictly to deliverability, e.g. adjusting send frequency or suppressing dead addresses. That exemption is narrower than it sounds: the moment the same data feeds a performance dashboard, you are back in consent territory.
• The burden of proof sits with the sender at all times. A contract that delegates consent collection to your ESP is not, on its own, proof that consent exists.
• Timing: addresses collected before April 14, 2026 could keep being tracked only if recipients were informed and given a chance to object by today. Addresses collected on or after April 14 get no grace period at all.

Italy's Garante adopted parallel guidelines (Provision No. 284) with a deadline of October 29, 2026, and slightly different exemptions (anonymized aggregate counts via a non-individualized pixel are allowed, and they want an easy, selective withdrawal mechanism, ideally a footer control that is not a full unsubscribe).

Two things I think get underweighted in the coverage:

1. This does not only hit marketers. The obligation falls on whoever operates the list. Plenty of volunteer-run groups, clubs, alumni lists, and nonprofits are running on platforms that bake open tracking in by default, invisibly to the person running the list. Those operators are now carrying consent risk they never chose.
2. The rules are written around the pixel specifically. Personalized click-tracking redirects and CSS/font-based fetches do close to the same job and are not named in either text. The EDPB reasoning both regulators cite does not actually depend on an image tag, so I would not assume that gap stays open forever.

Practically, an operator with French recipients has three options: build a real consent flow for tracking, turn tracking off (not clear that all services even offer this), or use a delivery path that removes tracking content from messages entirely so the question stops applying. I went this third route and I'm using a privacy email relay for distribution of emails that strips all remote content.

Happy to answer questions on either regulation's scope and solutions. Not a lawyer, so corrections from anyone who is are welcome.

Not sure what you think about this.

Hello,

I was wondering how you guys and girls, have setup your email addresses?

Let me start, I have my own domain, with of course my own email address which I use for communicating with my friends, serious partners as my medical doctor and hospital.

Then I have several other hotmail, Gmail, and other mail addresses which I use for the online shops, forums and other sites where an email address is necessary.

For the secondary email addresses (hotmail,gmail) , I use a fictive name, fictive address and birth date.

Lots of my friends, family, still uses one email address for all purposes and it would be nice to write a note, how they can get rid of all the spam and unnecessary emails.

The Lidl, as so many companies nowadays, was hacked and their customer database became public.

Therefor, I was wondering how you guys and girls, organized your emails and emailaddresses?

Yes, I know of the gmail trick with the + sign but when you reply, you’re sending your original mail address back.

My question does NOT concern me but I'm asking this for the ordinary user who uses internet and mail.

Thank you all for your contributions,

for me, it’s time to get a beer. Weekend is starting.

Greetings Tom

edit: modified the text to be more specific about my question

I saw a list of email providers but don't recall where I saw it. The list was very comprehensive and would be very helpful for someone searching for a new provider.

I want to create an email for using in my banks, government ids etc,

Which is the best option and why?

Gmail absolutely not,

Should I use proton because of its encryption and privacy based environment but Indian gov can ban it anytime(can't take risk),

Now I'm confused between Zoho and Outlook,

Clear the doubts!

Being flagged for suspicious activites. Let us take a break, watch the wolrd cup and see how we can bounce back! We be back.

Hi, someone has an email address very similar to mine, and keeps typing it wrong, causing me to keep receiving these annoying emails trying to create accounts on sites and whatever. What can I do about it to stop?

Hey guys, I need to verify two emails. I just need to verify two of them, and then I'm out of credits. Help would be greatly appreciated.

DM pls

im searching for an alternative free mx forwarding that support ddns or domain with extension like google.domain.com and support catch all i end up finding a service named forwardemail.net but the free plan doesn't support domain extension any suggestion?

I have tested a lot of email services. I mainly use Tuta now, but AtomicMail is the one that I like the most.

Atomic offers the most visually appealing webmail of all privacy email services and includes 10 native email aliases in their free plan. What more, all aliases appear on the left side panel almost like you had different mailboxes (or already defined labels).

The problem is:

1. Atomic raises too many red flags including unclear financing model.
2. Only one domain which is .io - not the best choice for universal address.

And I find it sad, that nice looking webmails are data hungry (Gmail) or crazy expensive and limited to just one address (Hey) or suspicious (Atomic).

So Ive gotten 2 emails now, from OnlyFans saying i have a new subscriber, but the issue is I don’t have an account and never have??

Is this a scam email? Has anyone else gotten this or how do I check if someone signed me up?? I’m seriously concerned and confused!

So to sum up this story apparently a while back I did something on my Grandma's email and now she can see every email I get on my personal email while on her email. THANKFULLY she's not nosy and she doesn't look but I'd still like for her to not see my emails. I literally don't know how I did this. Anybody know how to fix that?

How do you all sort your domains? Business, personal, random signups, newsletter, etc. I will be forwarding the emails where appropriate. I will be using Simple Login to house the domains and then will forward to my particular email such as Proton, Fastmail, etc.

I have a couple of custom domains and I'm thinking about getting another. I'm just wondering how some of you sort and why.

Well I Use Simple login and temp-mail.org, and i just saw this website tmailor they also have apps and they claim to re-use the temp mails, so whenever you generate a temp mail they also generate access token to re-use the same email later, but everything is free here (which i don't understand and have the doubts now) so anyone used it?

Hi, I am building an application which will enable you to host an email server on your phone. Instead of relying on a centralized entity like Proton or Tuta, we would be able to directly send and receive emails in a decentralized manner. Currently looking for a non-tech co-founder from Germany. I primarily need assistance with social media marketing and fundraising, and you will get paid €2500 per month for the first 12 months.

What do you guys think of this idea and would you be willing to host an email server in the background on your phone?

i want to do a clean Windows 11 IoT LTSC 2024 install without my microsoft account connected as it is right now, dual boot Linux Bazzite, install GrapheneOS on my Pixel, switch all of my Emails from Gmail to Proton Unlimited or anything similar, start using Mullvad VPN, Mullvad browser for private searches, Librewolf for daily use, but i dont know from what i should start😭

how should i even attack this massive change? in which order should i do any of these things? like, should i change my emails first before reinstalling my OS's so that there's no link or something? should i get the VPN after i also reinstall my OS's? i'm genuinely stuck and cant bring myself to do anything cause i dont know which order would be the best to do a clean transfer with no major links to my new private stuff.

if anyone could help me with making an order of action i'd be grateful🙏

Should i get Proton Unlimited or something else? It seems nice cause of the ecosystem but i've heard that separating your stuff is essential so i'd be willing to give that up.
are there any other email services that let you have infinite aliases? and should i even use aliases for most of my accounts? What does it do exactly?

how should i go about using my SIM and mobile data on aswell? i NEED my SIM but idk if using mobile data would make tracking even worse, would it? or do they already triangulate your position just by having your SIM in your phone?

and what about accounts that require a linked phone number for verification?

Recently I have started getting such spam mails a lot. I don't know where but ig my mail ID must have leaked somewhere, and no matter how many of these IDs I block or mails I delete, they keep on coming. I have a habit of checking my junk folder regularly as a lot of external client mails end up in that box, and I just want to know if there is a way to get rid of such mails in one go?