[ivlad]

You choose to have Google spying devices at home. You choose to have Gmail. You may have no choice for Internet search for quite some time, but you certainly choose your browser.

Start there.

[capital_guy]

> You choose to have Gmail

Disagree with this. self hosting email is notoriously difficult. Gotta give the data to somebody. Plus, your work email is either going through MSFT or GOOG, 99% of the time

[sosodev]

What about the numerous other email providers?

[justinclift]

> self hosting email is notoriously difficult

Yet people do it anyway. It's not an impossible task like you're making out.

[ivlad]

This is a lie created by webmail providers. There is nothing difficult in self hosting email, abd ensuring email delivery.