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I need some advice: my Yahoo account has suddenly become very problematic with all sorts of demands for information about me, they want me to subscribe and pay for their service, and signing in is now a very cumbersome process.

I need a new secure email account. Any suggestions? I looked at Proton Mail because someone I met is using it but it is based in Europe and I am unsure of that.
 
@MeganC, what do you really mean by secure - secure against what threat?

Email is a fundamentally insecure protocol. It was invented in the early days of the internet with no thought to security. All "secure" services are patchup jobs. Even using protonmail, your mail can be intercepted in transit or at the other person's end, who will usually not be using the same service.

Protonmail is a good service, but I find I rarely use it as the layers of security get in the way of convenience and practicality - I can't just connect via imap alongside my other accounts but need to use their site or software.

So what is your major threat concern?
  • Big business knowing everything about you? Solution: Don't use a free service from Google or Yahoo etc that is paid for by using your data. Pay for email from anyone who just wants your money for the service.
  • Criminals? Most services have protection against hacking at this level, just get a decent service from a reputable provider.
  • The provider itself? You're dreaming. Can't trust anyone that much. Protonmail may come close, but even they have been forced by the courts to track people. Only solid solution here is to self host - but that has so many downsides it's not worth considering.
  • Government? You're possibly dreaming as they are far better resourced than any other threat, but start by having email hosted outside your country.
  • Reliability? Have it hosted inside your country so geopolitical interruptions of the internet don't stop it.
  • Backed up against data loss? Use someone reputable.
Some of those considerations are mutually exclusive.

I just consider email relatively insecure. These days we use mxroute.com to host our family email services. One annual fee and I can give everyone in the family an account at our own domain, easily used via webmail or imap. Secure against corporate big brother (it's not Google), and criminals (very reputable company), and data loss. Not secure against my government (hosted in the USA while I love in another five eyes country), but that's much harder to achieve. That's the right balance between security, practicality and cost for us.

If you're planning a civil war, just don't use email.
 
MeganC said:
I need some advice: my Yahoo account has suddenly become very problematic with all sorts of demands for information about me, they want me to subscribe and pay for their service, and signing in is now a very cumbersome process.

I need a new secure email account. Any suggestions? I looked at Proton Mail because someone I met is using it but it is based in Europe and I am unsure of that.
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Suggestion: Tutanota
 
MeganC said:
It's also socially unacceptable to say you don't like the Jews so a number of Christians who harbor bad feelings for The Tribe will not say so when they get polled by some random stranger.
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Amen, because 'antisemitism' is not only no longer discrimination against all descendants of Shem but not even discrimination against Jews in particular. In my observation, in excess of 95% of all instances of the word 'antisemitism' being directed toward another person, it's not anything to do with hating Jews; it's instead the fact that shouting out 'Antisemite' is an effective tactic any time someone has made a legitimate criticism about something a Jewish person is doing -- when the person's Jewishness has no relevance to the topic in question. It's a great racket for immunizing a group of people from receiving any criticism no matter what they do.

Black race hustlers in America have effectively utilized this same strategy.
 
MeganC said:
I need some advice: my Yahoo account has suddenly become very problematic with all sorts of demands for information about me, they want me to subscribe and pay for their service, and signing in is now a very cumbersome process.

I need a new secure email account. Any suggestions? I looked at Proton Mail because someone I met is using it but it is based in Europe and I am unsure of that.
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Juno is free, and it can be set up in Outlook in order to avoid cumbersome web mail.
 
FollowingHim said:
What I find particularly strange in that table, shocking in fact, is that universally every single Christian denomination likes Jews more than they like any other Christian denomination - i.e. Catholics like Jews more than they like Protestants and vice versa. And the differences are very large in some cases. I understand Christians liking Jews - but liking them more than other Christians? That should cause people to pause and reflect where their priorities lie.

Also, so much for antisemitism - every single group likes Jews. Everyone. No group has a net unfavourable opinion of Jews, Jews are the most loved group out of everybody. Which means there is basically no such thing as antisemitism any more in the USA (and I suspect the same would apply to most Western, Asian and African countries), what we see is the exact opposite, near-universal "prosemitism". This is a good thing as it heals a past problem - but it also means that old trope shouldn't continue to be milked. It's obsolete, yet it keeps getting brought up. These days there's probably only really antisemitism in the Middle East and some parts of Eastern Europe (and I'm not dismissing the fact it's obviously a serious issue in the Middle East).

The groups that are actually disliked are Evangelical Christians (lowest overall rating), Mormons (only Catholics like them), and Muslims (only Mormons and Agnostics like them). If we're going to worry about prejudice in the West, we should be talking about antiChristianism.
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All I see is poll numbers, on what grounds do we even accept them?
 
Keith Martin said:
Juno is free, and it can be set up in Outlook in order to avoid cumbersome web mail.
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I don't know much about Juno, but given it's a freebie to draw people into a hosting service, I'd be concerned that it may not be as well maintained as a dedicated service which actually earns money. This isn't a criticism of Juno itself as I know nothing about that company, but a general comment regarding email from any ISP.

Also, all free services are used by spammers whenever they can get away with it, which means their servers get flagged by spam filters, and you can end up having problems with deliverability as your own emails can end up in the recipients spam box.

I've used free services for years, but have finally started just paying directly for a quality service that takes a hard line against spammers, which is ultimately the best option. If the company only does email, and all their revenue relies on doing email well, they're not going to neglect it or let it be abused in a way that adversely impacts you.
 
FollowingHim said:
I don't know much about Juno, but given it's a freebie to draw people into a hosting service, I'd be concerned that it may not be as well maintained as a dedicated service which actually earns money. This isn't a criticism of Juno itself as I know nothing about that company, but a general comment regarding email from any ISP.

Also, all free services are used by spammers whenever they can get away with it, which means their servers get flagged by spam filters, and you can end up having problems with deliverability as your own emails can end up in the recipients spam box.

I've used free services for years, but have finally started just paying directly for a quality service that takes a hard line against spammers, which is ultimately the best option. If the company only does email, and all their revenue relies on doing email well, they're not going to neglect it or let it be abused in a way that adversely impacts you.
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I've been using Juno without problems for close to 2 decades.
 
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"Any single verse of the Bible, taken in isolation, may actually be dangerous to your spiritual health. Every part of it must be read in relation to the whole message."

Louis Classes (1922-1974)
Senior Editor, UPI (United Press International)
 
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