What would the difference be using email providers outside the 14 eyes country?
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
6 points (100.0% liked)
askchapo
22931 readers
181 users here now
Ask Hexbear is the place to ask and answer ~~thought-provoking~~ questions.
Rules:
-
Posts must ask a question.
-
If the question asked is serious, answer seriously.
-
Questions where you want to learn more about socialism are allowed, but questions in bad faith are not.
-
Try !feedback@hexbear.net if you're having questions about regarding moderation, site policy, the site itself, development, volunteering or the mod team.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
You can't sign up for anything with a non-normie email anymore as of like 2018. 
Everything demands something directly tied to a phone number anymore and I don't know why people didn't make a bigger deal about that.
Fun story: I recently had a... lonely moment and downloaded Tinder. I use a wifi calling app and don't pay a phone bill. Guess what you can't do with that VOIP number?
Comrades, I'm too poor for casual sex.
It really doesn't matter what email provider you choose as email itself is not meant for secure communications.
Ideally you choose an email provider that gets out of your way as much as posdible. I've been using posteo for that purpose and proton+email aliases with simplelogin for creating accounts on different sites.
Email aliases are a godsend for navigating the internet nowadays and creating accounts on certain sites.
What about PGP encrypted mail? It seemed to be the standard "private" means of communication before Signal
Fastmail?
I admittedly don’t know their chud level, but haven’t had any issues with the service or price.
Autistici/Inventati is a nonprofit email service run by Italian anticapitalists. You have to request registration. I wrote them a couple paragraphs saying that I am a Marxist and they gave me an email account. Whether you trust them or not is up to you.
How does the Proton CEO seem chuddy?
Just sounds like he appreciated a GOP/Trump policy over a Dem/Biden policy. Not that different from us showing critical support to some Trump moves. It wouldn't change the technology.
I use disroot which is a non profit/community maintained and seems to have good intentions/values - I've also briefly tried Tuta in the past and don't have any complains about them. In terms of privacy all E-Mail providers are shit sadly as that is fundementally tied to E-Mail as a protocol
Dude, yes, I'd forgotten about disroot. That's exactly what I'm looking for.
Yandex has European and Russian servers. European if you are in Europe, so Europe can spy on you. Russian otherwise. Although I don't know what their policies are for handing over data in compliance with orders. Ultimately nothing email or internet related is very secure lol.
Pretty sure any intel sharing request from the West get a response if "lol stfu" from Russia.