[aswerty]

I really like the idea of Ecosia and Steward Owned companies, but as somebody who wants out of the Ad game completely, uses uBlock Origin religiously and pays for services like email and search. I haven't actually used Ecosia, but am interested in others experiences with it. But I imagine in the HN crowd a lot of other people fit the same profile as myself.

[dmbche]

You pay for search and email? What services do you use? May I ask you why, if you're wanting to go into it?

[Toutouxc]

In my case it's Kagi and Fastmail. Fastmail primarily because I don't want to support Google and Kagi because it's genuinely better than the alternatives.

[robin_reala]

Kagi and Soverin for me. I bailed from GMail after the AMP-in-mail proposal,[1] and EU hosting was a bonus; ended up blogging about my choice back in 2018.[2] If there was a good EU equivalent to Kagi I’d be definitely interested.

[1] https://blog.google/products/g-suite/bringing-power-amp-gmai...

[2] https://www.robinwhittleton.com/2018/02/18/dropping-g-suite/

[stavros]

Not the GP, but I pay for Fastmail because it's just so much better than Gmail, and I pay for Kagi sometimes because it's generally better than Google.

[aswerty]

Fastmail and Kagi. And I'm very happy with both.

[dotcoma]

I pay for Tuta (tuta.com) for email.

The only paid search engine I know is Kagi (kagi.com)

[nosioptar]

I pay for purelymail after seeing others on HN say they like it. It costs something absurd,like $0.8 per month, and I've never had a problem with it.

[internet_points]

Fastmail for me. Switching was easy. For existing services/logins, I just added forwarding from gmail and didn't bother changing addresses except with the most important things. Most services from back then no longer exist anyway, or have turned into spam, so I eventually turned off the forwarding.

I don't yet pay for search (mostly using duckduckgo), though I am considering it.

[gherkinnn]

Kagi and Proton.

I pay for Kagi because it is a genuinely good search engine. I pay for both because I de-googled my life and I understand that one needs to pay for a service one way or another.

The price is negligible in the grand scheme of things. I've had nights out that cost more but gave me less.

[dwedge]

I wish more people would self-host email. Email getting centralised to a handful of providers is no good for anyone.

[rcMgD2BwE72F]

Fastmail and Kagi. The former is amazing – Gmail UX and speed is atrocious in comparison, and the latter is amazing to find reliable, to-the-point results.

[iglio]

Kagi and Proton here

[herrherrmann]

Not OP, but just checking in as a another happy Kagi + Fastmail user here!