Libb

It’s hard to make the full switch towards a more private life, but switching your mail already fixes a big underlying issue: that being, Google or other companies having access to all your emails. So, I’ll cover the basics of making your online mailing more private.

The issue is that the moment you send a mail to someone or receive an email from someone that is using Gmail (or whatever provider that don’t care about privacy), your own email is not private anymore: it’s read by that other company. So, unless everyone was to start using encrypted emails and I should say compatible encrypted emails, real email privacy will be little more than a wish.

It’s a good move to ditch companies like Google, obviously, but one should not let potential switcher believe that it’s a magical wand that will make their emails private. It is not.

As a side note, I would also suggest for a much better privacy: use emails aliases so you never share your real email with any company or service provider.

Idolizing the past (and long gone) ‘grandeur’ of some European countries is not the best way to prepare for the future.

edit: as a disclaimer, I’m European from one of those once important countries.