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You could also get a private E-Mail address that doesn't scan all your mails to make money out of it. Google tries to enprison you in it's ecosystem by "facilitating" logins and so on. If you don't pay with money, you pay with your data.
mailbox.org posteo.net
Both are great alternatives for only a couple of bucks a month.
Huge vote for mailbox.org. They have calendars, contract lists, online storage, etc. I've been able to get rid of Google/gmail almost entirely from my phone.
Also ~~free~~ included video conferences!
I don't know anything about mailbox.org, but I'm sure it's way less sketchy than Google. It's just interesting you would praise their free video conferences after posting "if you don't pay with money, you pay with data."
Should have said 'included' rather than 'free' since it is a paid service
Yeah, I got my name when gmail was 'invite only' :/
It actually kinda sucks. At any given time I have between 3 and a zillion idiots around the globe who, for months or years on end, keep buying concert tickets, airline/vacation bookings, get job hits, legal firm or health-care notifications ... using my email (jbloggs@gmail.com) instead of (jbloggs999@gmail.com) or whatever variant they actually signed up for, since I got 'just my name' and they keep. forgetting. their. own. bloody. email.
And most of the time this shit is sent from a 'noreply@wherever.net' so I can't even tell them they have the wrong email address. Grrrrrrr.
I really hope that is not your real email
Joe Bloggs is the UK equivalent of Joe Shmoe, John Doe etc - a common placeholder name for the average person.
I never thought I'd meet the inventor of blogs!
Same here. And the reasons you mention are exactly the reason I deleted that account a few years ago when I switched to Fastmail.
A couple of my friends are willing to put up with it, but always mention the volume of spam they deal with.
I've had my new email address for 6-odd years and only have one regular spam source - from a hack of an online shop - but as I used a username+shopname email alias for it, it's easy to detect and automatically handle.
Now I use Fastmail's "Masked Email" feature for each online account. When (not if) a site gets hacked, I just change the site to use a new masked address and block/delete the old one, and then it's useless to scammers/spammers.
Same, the best one was the dude who created an account with my email but his own phone number. So I text him to try and scare him with the fact that some random dude got hold of his private info. He was unfazed and replied "my nephew set it up for me, guess we've got the same email address"...
I made a gmail with my name like 2 years ago, I just have an uncommon name ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've tried using my name in email/accounts for decades and never got it. I have a name so common people think I'm making it up when I tell them. It also makes me not too worried about posting it online, because even if you knew it and my location you still probably couldn't find the right person.
Nice to meet you John Smith.
I own the domain for my last name (firstname@lastname.countrycode) and get people all the time insisting it can't be my real email. I also own a short domain based on my last name (like last.nm) which is very useful and techy people think it's pretty cool.
I was there when it was invite only, child. They used to have an IM chat too.
Google still has a chat embedded in Gmail, but because Google is grotesquely incompetent they've never succeeded in making a good messaging service. I think they've had like 15, but they are too fucked up to just make one work.
One of the things I bring up if someone says "we should run the government like a business"
Oh shit yeah! I remember begging a friend who got one to send me an invite. Didnt you only get like 3 invites to begin with or something?
Sounds good until dozens of people around the world all use it as their email too. So many receipts and job applications. I have enough documents for an Australian with the same name as me, I could easily steal their identity. A 12 year old in England set up an Instagram with my email and I ended up with access to their full account. Also had some fun the time I was included in a maga family email chain.
Same for me. The lack of email validation is ridiculous.
I got my Gmail account because someone gave me one of their early adopter invites LOL.
And here I am, with a firstname@lastname.de address, running my own mail server.
The pain of running this still beats having to deal with a free provider out there that either spams my inbox with their own BS or just skims through the data to serve me ads.
I’m using my custom domain email with a hosting service (mailbox.org). Hosting on my own was a pain in the ass and you also have to deal with spam filters not trusting you.
do you mean the holy grail of
or the slightly uncommon
I got firstnamelastname@gmail.com when gmail was still 'invite only'.
The one drawback to that is there is a General in the U.S. Army with my exact name who doesn't understand how email works and apparently gives out my email address as his. I wish I knew what his actual email address was so I could let people know what it is. I bet he's missing out on a lot of VA functions and barber appointments because he couldn't be assed to remember his actual email address.
I have first name lastname too. And tbh… It’s a bit of a curse.
I have 2 swedish people wirh the same name as me give it to whatever websites they sign up for at random.
(I’m pretty sure its two people, but oculd also be one person)
“Do not cite the deep magic to me…”
I have this and the other people with my name give it as their own email address all the time, apparently not understanding that you don’t get the address just for existing.
I have a somewhat common word as my last name.
My first two initials are 'al', which means "to the" in Italian.
My email is al.lastname@gmail.com
I get Italian train ticket reservation info about twice a year.
Tbf im the only person on the planet with my name. I think that’s pretty neat.
For context, I have a made up last name so I know everyone on earth with my family name
In my 40+ years alive, I've never met anyone with my first name, although I know they exist; a quick Google search shows me at least a handful of people who have it.
My last name is an Americanized spelling of a Danish pronunciation of a Norwegian farm name. There are very few people who have my exact last name, and every one I've ever spoken to has been a descendant of my ancestral family who immigrated to America a century and a half ago.
Combine the two, and I'm pretty sure I'm the only person on the planet with my specific name. I've never had a problem making accounts with my first.last name anywhere.
When gmail was invite I got my name, my ex wife's and both my kid's. I also got a couple of regular words, for other uses. I get a ton of mail for other people with the same last name.
Kid taking my gmail address: how did they allow you to have a troll name for email address?
I was there when gmail was invented.
imagine my luck at joining lemmy.world before they created an affiliates program.
