[dopidopHN2]

You can start by creating a email at tuta or proton. It does not have to be 100% overnight

[OutOfHere]

Tuta is just horrible, often rejecting account creation altogether. AtomicMail.io is a nice free alternative to Proton.

[mike-cardwell]

What's nice about AtomicMail.io? I just tested it with https://www.emailprivacytester.com and it leaked my IP and when I read the email. And I can't even find an option to turn off remote content loading, which has been a standard feature of email and webmail clients for privacy reasons for decades, and should be turned to off by default.

[dopidopHN2]

Thanks for your perspective. I've been using tuta since a year now. Nothing to report

[mvanbaak]

but then you send a mail to $person, and this $person uses gmail, and now your mail is still indexed by google.

The only way to get around this is to use encryption. dont send plain text email.

[syntheticcdo]

And if the recipient uses a Chrome extension to handle the decryption... Google still has access to the cleartext. There's no winning.