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I just signed up to Proton Mail & am changing over my email, calendar, setting up the VPN and migrating all my stuff to their cloud server. I've only just started the process and I'm exhausted already. I haven't even looked at the password manager yet to decide if I want to change to that or not. But storing my digital life in Switzerland instead of USA seems like a very good idea at the moment.
I have one I'm afraid to contaminate with data leaks so I literally use it for nothing. No, I don't follow the logic either.
I'm in the process of the same thing.
proton and mastodon.
might move my gmail , not that i use it much
I'm still using tor a lot and had my exit node set to usa ( I pasted in some code ) but I might start using proton vpn and try for yerp
Lemmy is nice but hardly secure .
I have multiple emails I use. Being able to use alias emails will be useful, and I'll also be able to set up email using my own domain name through Proton - which means I can move them ito another company in the future if I decide Proton's not the best option anymore. It also means I can set up lots of emails along the lines of companyname@myname.website, and have a seperate address for each of the major companies I deal with (like banks and insurance companies) to create another difference so that data matching won't expose as much information. I'd looked at doing this using the company that hosts my website, but their interface did not work well for emails and it's not very secure.
I've got proton mail and I love the security of it. Haven't looked at the other parts of it yet tho, just the mail.
Google seems to be becoming a worse company, migrating away looks like a good idea.
Yeah, I've been contemplating it for a while, it's just taken the recent issues in US to give me enough push to actually act.
this makes me so sad