Careful with proton mail. The CEO has come out as a maga suporter.
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2025
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I am transferring all of my email address; a few years back it took me months to figure out what was all going to my gmail account that was used signing up for stuff even though there was some web app I used, I was going to move away from the Google as much as possible, minus search and YouTube. Several months ago I moved away from Google search, and was stuck with YouTube as there is no real competition to it, that my favourite channels use, so I am stuck with it.
So iCloud’s hide my email was the replacement for Gmail, it was a lot easier to cancel junk mail by being able to just turn off email addresses that started spamming me. Come now to the buy Canadian stuff I am turning off all my hide my email addresses and moving some to proton pass, most of the emails so far I can just delete but many I have to go to the webpage and change the address. It is hard work and I have given myself a deadline of the end of the month when my iCloud subscription is done and dusted. Only 152 email addresses left!
Piss off, now my plan on going to bitwarden and my own domain emails for random stuff.
Bitwarden is American, use 1Password.
Bitwarden is open source though. Self host, if you can. But yeah, looks like 1Password is headquartered in Toronto.
I was going to self host but I will check out 1password
Indeed, but a lot of people use their cloud service, which is US-based and hosted. This is not OP's case, however.
I’m using proton myself and have still continued to do so after these news. I kinda disagree that the founder is necessarily in any way maga or even a republican support just because he expressed praise for republicans on one particular issue. I think that’s taking it a bit too far, unless I’ve missed something where he clearly endorses Trump or his views more broadly.
I'm using Proton myself and plan to leave with a scorched earth mentality on it.
Simply put, America is sliding into fascism at lightning speed. Their president is attempting erasure of whole classes of people, and is openly discussing crimes against humanity as plans.
Who gives a fuck about an appointee?
The Optics are Andy Yen throwing praise and bending the knee.
Also regarding his carefully worded back pedaling:
It's Republicans and Democrats, not Dems.
I'd tell him to go fuck himself to his face, but will settle for not funding him.
I agree. Was using proton before and will continue to use it as it's a solid product worth paying for
Proton's CEO publicly supported Trump. I've moved away from Proton and closed my account.
I HIGHLY recommend Addy.io instead for email aliases. WAY better.
Once I get around to removing my email addresses from proton I am cancelling it.
Check out freetubeapp.io on desktop and newpipe on Android for YouTube. You are right that there is no competitors, but at least this way they don't get any ad revenue from you.
I have a pihole with some youtube ad blocking techniques added to it. I have a premium account that is good until November or something like that, but when I sign out of my youtube account and watch YouTube that way it does a good job blocking ads.
The Google is an advertisement company, my pihole blocks all the ads everywhere.
Can you please share your YouTube blocking techniques for pihole. In my experience YouTube injects their ads as part of the stream, which I haven't had luck blocking with DNS ad blocking
Hushmail is Canadian and they let you use aliases. It looks a little dated, but the product is solid and their support team is outstanding.
I have my own domain that I will use.
hey there, i did something similar, but i run my own email server and setup the alias system by myself using postfix and dovecot. cost for domain depends in the domain, the cheapest one i have is 7$ per year. running a mailserver on a vm is like 5$/month or more. i also immediately move my emails from that vm to a raspberry pi running in my home, so i have physical access at any given time and i can literally use the cheapest vm as data is only stored on it for a few seconds.
i currently maintain my list of aliases in the "tables" app on a nextcloud instance on that same raspberry pi, so i can add or remove postfix virtual aliases from my cell, i use a pythkn script to read that mysql table and extract what is needed to create the virtual alias for postfix which is then synced to the vm via csync2
whenever spam arrives, i just change the address at the page/newsletter/shop where it was leaked, change my password there and tell the pageowner that they had a data leak.
i nearly get no spam at all, but when, i know who leaked my data, so i consider this sort of an advantage.
in my database i have the (automatic) creation date, switch if its enabled or disbaled, the date of deactication, i also added a 'notes' column for things like why i disabled it, when i asked for a password reset but didnt get an email so that when i finally deacticate it, i have sort of a documentation when and how i tried to delete the account (when the page is sort of dead for example) i also have a switch to which of my real accounts (not aliases) that alias belongs, so i have a postbox for important emails (server administration, access to providers management systems) and i.e. one for less important things like shops, newsletters etc.
creating single aliases for each newsletter was over the years a lot of work but always only when setting it up a few seconds, so no big deal. however after decades of doing so, i figured out that this is a very good documentation of where i have accounts etc. it WAS a big deal however when i wanted to clean things up, move those aliases from multiple domains to a single one, delete accounts i dont need any more, change passwords (possibly to better ones) and add passkeys or totp where possible in one go. that was a lot of work and i only have few aliases left, one company i.e. that lets me reset the password, login with it, but when i try to delete my account, they claim they witnessed "suspicious behaviour" and lock my account again, i guess they never implemented account deletion and try to cover that with abuse of their so cslled "security concerns". well, some providers are more difficult than others. those are the main reason why my cleanup still isnt done completely yet
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