If it's free from a for profit company, you're most likely the product
its honestly weird that email is still a thing. it is an outdated protocol which is a privacy nightmare even without big tech usurping it.
It's not outdated. The chance of a newer electronic communication method being ubiquitous and also relatively open (e.g. not associated directly with a company) is slim. PGP encryption (another "old" technology) solves the privacy nightmare piece. People just have to use it.
Also I recommend selfhosting email. Mailinabox.email is pretty brainless.
It's the only decentralized communication protocol for personal messages that is widely adopted. And yes, it's a privacy nightmare.
It isn't surprising that something outdated is still used
In other news, water is wet. Honestly though, people expecting "free" services from big corpos are naive. What do they expect the servers and admins/devs are payed with?
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.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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