For email, Startmail seems interesting. It was rated pretty high on PCMag.
https://www.startmail.com/pricing
Curious if people's thoughts.
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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Proton has a similar restriction which is a bummer.
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I love downvotes for providing a throrougly explained response to a question of opinions
*VPN
As much as some people discount its use/viability, tor (as in tor anonymizing network layer service, not Tor browser) is an excellent alternative to a VPN. IMHO.
It is free. It is open sourced. It is highly configurable. You can select your exit nodes (country) should you choose. You can use it to route all or any traffic. It also handles anonymous DNS resolving if you like.
You can run it as a service or instance on Linux on its own and you can use dnscrypt-proxy or other secure DNS with it. As a proxy or VPN on android via a number of apps and in combination with others. (Invizible pro can use dnscrypt over tor and run as proxy or vpn. RethinkDNS can do basically the same. Orbot is its own tor proxy. Etc)
Every node may not be able to handle your traffic needs, but it shouldn't be hard to find one that can. VPN apps face similar issues.
*IVPN is a Canadian vpn provider that hosts several tor nodes and funds the tor organization. They have a reputation for serious privacy and security.
*Email :I'm here to learn what others think.
*cloud storage: I'd say the best option is your own option. Nobody to worry about in the middle. I use ssh and simple servers set up on my machines.
The self hosting community could provide a lot of info on how to set up.
https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted
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