I am transferring all of my email address; a few years back it took me months to figure out what was all going to my gmail account that was used signing up for stuff even though there was some web app I used, I was going to move away from the Google as much as possible, minus search and YouTube. Several months ago I moved away from Google search, and was stuck with YouTube as there is no real competition to it, that my favourite channels use, so I am stuck with it.
So iCloud’s hide my email was the replacement for Gmail, it was a lot easier to cancel junk mail by being able to just turn off email addresses that started spamming me. Come now to the buy Canadian stuff I am turning off all my hide my email addresses and moving some to proton pass, most of the emails so far I can just delete but many I have to go to the webpage and change the address. It is hard work and I have given myself a deadline of the end of the month when my iCloud subscription is done and dusted. Only 152 email addresses left!
Same. Not pleased but it’s more everyday opportunistic capitalism than full-blown MAGA unhingement.
Everyday opportunistic capitalism is exactly why are have fascists in power now.
Yes, however I cannot reasonably hop to new email providers and browsers every time a CEO or founder opens his big dumb mouth.
So far I’ve moved emails from Gmail to Fastmail, then to Hey then back to Fastmail then to Proton Mail. It’s getting exhausting.
Unless/until Proton leadership comes out in direct support of Trump and his abhorrent policies I’m going to wait and see this time. Right now they’ve commented that they have an easier time working with Republicans and that’s not going to update my MX record in 2025.
Other people have other tolerances and more available money and time to make more switches. That’s great for you—I’m not trying to stop anybody.
FYI when I switched email providers it was almost totally painless since I use email aliases and a custom domain. It's a really good setup even aside from the ease of switching.
Switching from Proton to Posteo was literally just updating a few DNS records.
Oh it’s not the DNS that concerns me. I have a few hundred Proton email aliases in use for my logins because I wanted to follow good privacy and anti data collection practices.
I finished with all my active accounts days before Proton said the thing. A week or so to switch and another week to switch back? And again to the next email provider’s alias options? I’m tired, Boss.
Oh, gotcha. I use a wildcard address so everything worked out of the box for me since I didn't need to import specific ones.
Exact same thing with me, I'm like I can't keep jumping around like this. There's only so far I'm willing to go, where good enough is going to have to be good enough, it's far more then most people are willing to do already.