• @LeHappStick
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    11 year ago

    Any recommendations for free email providers?

    • Cryptic Fawn
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      31 year ago

      Any recommendations for free email providers?

      I’m using proton. I like it a lot.

    • Hutch
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      11 year ago

      Register your own domain name with Gandi and they gift you free email with a choice of two webmail interfaces. It’s really good, and owning the domain name enables moving to a different provider later if you wish.

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Nothing is free. How would they make money as a company to pay employees and pay hosting bills?

      All these big tech companies are free exactly because they are preditory on users.

      Pay for good email like Fastmail or Proton.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        I understand the sentiment, but email is a necessary part of modern life and not everyone has the luxury of paying for it.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          A lot of things are necessary parts of modern live and you also have to pay for it, a mobile plan for your smartphone for example.

          • Cryptic Fawn
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            11 year ago

            I had a smartphone but not a mobile plan for years. People can get very creative when times are tough.

            • @[email protected]
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              01 year ago

              Don’t get me wrong, I think everybody should have the guarantee for social participation, I’m just saying that Email is no exception. If you did not have a mobile plan for whatever reason, you were just not participating.

              • Cryptic Fawn
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                21 year ago

                Not really; I could do everything everyone else was doing; just not make phone calls or send sms texts. I used wifi to connect to the net and I could still make emergency calls. Im actually considering going back to that to save money, lol.

      • carly™
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        11 year ago

        I mean, Proton, which you just mentioned, also has a free tier, which is just as usable as Gmail is for 90% of people, myself included.