Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
I have been considering moving my email away from google, but the shared calendars with others are an issue.
I use google shared calendars but not email, but I think in terms of email trackers using alternate clients helps. I use FairEmail on Android and Thunderbird (or BetterBird) on my computer.
I also use Firefox Relay for disposable email addresses, which can remove trackers from emails and stop you being tracked across sites. The downside is I can’t start an email from an alias, only reply to one, so if I order something and put the email in then they only send me a confirmation from a donotreply email, I have no way to email them from the alias to find out why they haven’t sent my order.
So for now I mostly use it for accounts and email lists and not for purchases.
For anon email I use OnionMail and fantasy name generator.
For stuff I want to keep, I add a [email protected] to see who is tracking / selling my details / getting hacked. I can easily block the service name that leaked my details.
The thing about that + trick, is it’s very easy to strip from the email.
What I like about Firefox Relay is the browser extension that makes it easy to generate new ones and will remember which site you did it at. I also wanted an excuse to financially support mozilla.
But there are heaps of others, Proton, (who bought simplelogin), Anonaddy, duckduckgo operates a free one, etc.