Gmail is too valuable a source of advertising data

Finding an alternative is the easy part. You can get yourself a domain on Namecheap, and get an email attached to it for pennies.

Issue is that a lot of services out there don’t consider alternative email providers as valid. Some as a protective measure against spam, some because… fuck knows why, honestly

Proton mail!

I mean, before Gmail, I had a new email address every 2-3 years. I’ve had Gmail for what, almost 20 years? That’s not what I’d define as “ephemeral.”