Trying to de-google and looking for an alternative to Gmail.

Don’t mind if it’s a paid service if it’s robust.

  • carzian
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    1 year ago

    OP is looking to move away from Google. Immediately getting locked into a different, arguably more restrictive, platform isn’t a solution.

    Now in general:

    Pros:

    • free (paid plan only?)
    • company will stay in business for a while

    Cons:

    • subject to Apple’s privacy policy
    • US based company, not great for privacy
    • locked into a different platform
    • Apple’s walled garden ecosystem means long term use is questionable. Will Apple keep supporting 3rd party email clients in 1,3,5 years? Do they even support it now? Who knows?
    • Apple has control over your account. If they screw you over on an iPhone purchase and you do a credit card charge back on them (for any reason really) do they let you keep your account? Google doesn’t
      • sparemethewearysigh@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It is free and comes with 5GB of cloud storage. For $1 a month, you get 50GB of cloud, a personal domain, Private relay (basically built in VPN), and email relay (masks your email address when signing up for a site, site never gets your actual email address, apple receive an email at the masked address and forwards to you.)

      • carzian
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        1 year ago

        Couldn’t tell you. I assumed it was free but I haven’t used an apple device in years

      • Matt@lemdro.id
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        1 year ago

        Basic email is free, but you need iCloud+ to get support for custom domains and more than 5GB of storage.

      • Hiru@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It’s free but you need a Mac or iOS device to set up a new mail account