I feel obligated to say that in no way do I condone the actions of Jeffery Epstein and others like him.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #ActuallyDrainTheSwamp

  • Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol
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    The only real selling point of any of these is “Not gmail.”

    Like. Sure. If you email your friend from your $redacted e2ee military-grade encryption account, and your friend also has the same provider of their e2ee military-grade encrypted email account, then yes. They’re encrypted, and $redacted can’t really provide much if they get subpoenaed. If your friend is using gmail? Your emails are being read by gmail.

    They often have other features, like I have a catch-all mailbox set up for my domain because I’d rather give lemmy$date@example.com than my actual email for various reasons. But their privacy ends where gmail begins.

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      Ya, the main reason I use alias’ at this point is because when an account gets compromised I can just change the email and password. Helps that I can also just disable emails that are only getting mailing lists too.

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        Yep! The other side benefits are that if your info gets sold online/leaked/what have you, and you start getting emails from your “bank” at the email you used to sign up for a random browser game in 2018, it’s easier to tell that it’s a scam. Not even that expensive either, I think I pay a total of $56/yr for the domain and the email?

        Only issue is I usually put the month/year in the alias so if something does happen I don’t need to remember if this is the first or third email for a service. If I don’t mark down the email in my password manager (rare, but has happened), I have the fun issue of forgetting my email and password for the account, because idfk when I signed up for this