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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services (www.engadget.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The problem is that if you run your own email server at home, you get blocked as a spammer these days. Today, to send emails you MUST use one of the big providers, or your email won't get delivered half of the times. One has no alternative but to use these free services.

[–] w2tpmf 6 points 4 months ago

Not if you set it up properly.

You can have your email hosted by Gmail or Outlook and still get flagged as spam if you don't complete the exact same set up requirements. (SPF, DKIM, etc)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I have my own email server and they don't block me AFAIK. I need to test more anyways