What is a good free email for the buisness side?

Those 10 years of emails on Gmail are also handy for Google's research, you don't get an account there for free, you pay in personal information. I happen to think my privacy is worth 15/year.

I also think that a social media page looks cheapskate, agree that it is easy and so forth. Perfect for a couple trucks, but also looks like a couple trucks even if you have more.

My example was buying the domain only, not hosting. That particular registrar has full-service email accounts, two included with just the domain purchase. Those email accounts also include calendar and address book and unlimited forwarding and alias addresses so they can be stretched easily. If you did need another address it's 40 cents/month.

They also include server-side tools so you can customise your own filtering, etc. In some ways, much better than Gmail, especially now with all the invasive spying background scripting Google runs which slows down every step.

If you download your emails via POP/IMAP you do not lose them if you give up the domain, they are still on your device. You would lose the email addresses tied to that domain if you gave it up. But if you can't afford 15/year for a domain you probably aren't going to be in business much longer.

 

what do you think all those states who are setting up license plate readers and cameras at every interstate exit and entrance are doing? What do you think the DOT is doing with those nice cameras pointed right at your face as you pull up to the weight station.. What is your ELD doing?

You are already being tracked with everything you do... Your credit cards, debit cards.. your ISP or cell phone.. everything is already being tracked even the govt tracks your phones calls thanks to Bush & Cheney..and Obama and Trump for continuing to approve it...

TBH.. I'd rather it be google than the #### govt.. at least google is just trying to make money.. but the #### govt is looking to make you a criminal..

 

That's silly reasoning. Just because .gov is tracking you, doesn't make it ok for Visa, Google, Amazon etc to track you. There's a reason I use mostly cash for personal purchases. If I go buy some adult beverage at the store, nobody knows but me and the clerk. There's a reason I do not use Gmail or any other "free" service like Facebook.

Think about it. Do you really think that if Facebook could make money selling someone (i.e. your competitors) the information about your followers or visitors to your site, they wouldn't do it? It a New York minute they would. Ditto with Google. Why afford them the chance?

As far as the scale cameras, I was involved in a criminal investigation in Oregon with the OSP, and even though it was OSP, they could not just log into the scale crossing information without going through a judge. That information, for whatever reason, is locked up a whole lot tighter than Facebook, Google, Visa, etc.

 

I've had the same hotmail account for coming up on 30 years, use it for everything.

No one cares what your address is, unless it's so wtf tarded, it takes people 10 minutes of conversation to get it right.

 

Using Hotmail simply means that you're giving your info to Microsoft free of charge, info they used to have to pay 300/hour for doing focus groups in ad agencies, now you can help a wealthy corporation save money and give it free to save $15.

Up to you, not telling you not to. But if a service is free, you are the product.

I don't like being a product, myself. Don't think of myself that way. But posting here I'm probably a product as well, might be time to hang it up.

 

I didn't say it was ok, I was simply making the point that it's happening and really not much you are gonna do about it, short of not doing anything online or not using anything but cash.

 

Do you donate to meth heads at truck stops?

Like a grotty data addict desperately jonesing for its next fix, Google just can't stop misbehaving

"With its ubiquitous tracking data attached to nearly every action on the commercial web – via a hidden "Push Page" – browser maker Brave asserts that Google has violated the intent of the EU's GDPR legislation, creating only just enough anonymity to let every Google partner do a bit of quick work with their databases – and voila! That protection of privacy vanishes.
But wait, there's more: Google just paid a $170m fine for hoovering up the info of children, because – as both Jesuits and advertisers know – you gotta get 'em while they're young. Neither of these "erosions" of personal privacy happened accidentally. Each required design, engineering, testing and deployment. Yet at no point along the way did any Googler involved in this say, "Hey, just a minute here!" and stop these – and too many other outrages to mention here – from happening.

Let's be honest, and admit something Google can't: like a crack addict doing anything for its next data fix, Google cannot stop misbehaving. It does not know how to stop. Years and years of getting high have robbed it of any capacity to make ethical decisions that favour the privacy and agency of its users."​

 

It's pretty easy to get your own domain and pay for email. I like it because there is more privacy. I went with godaddy which I don't recommend since they use Microsoft for the email.

Protonmail.com has a free service with smartphone app available and also offers paid email hosting. I'm going to switch over to them when my godaddy plan runs out.

 

Protonmail has a free entry level account. The issue with them is that opening the account takes two separate passwords, so AFAIK not possible to use via POP/IMAP. Otherwise they work well and the encryption is set up so it isn't in the way.

And yeah, GoDaddy is a mess. Also any EIG-owned hosting companies.