I’ve moved almost completely to Proton Mail. I expect I’ll end up keeping a Google or Outlook account, not for use as a primary account, but as a recovery account or to access other services.
I currently see a lot less value in the google account than outlook, but that’s because my family does need access to full blown office. Libre office does 98% of what I need, but on occasion I do need office. An install of 2010 would probably meet that requirement as well. Firefox is set to delete cookies on exit, and I do not ever stay signed into these services.
Does anyone else keep free service email accounts around, and if so, what do you use them for? What’s the pit-fall I’m not seeing if I try to restrict them and treat them with the Principle of Least Privileged model?
I keep an Outlook.com account to communicate with Microsoft. Render unto Caesar that which is Caesars.
I still have an outlook for Minecraft
That’s it, that’s all I use it for
Youtube is powerful, halp
RSS feeds are what set me free, and they’re actually much more reliable, YouTube can’t seem to create working subscription notifications.
Yes. Just go to their channel page, right click, view page source. Search the source code for channelid=(long string of letters and numbers)
Put this into your feed reader: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=(long string of letters and numbers)
Do you need an email for it? I thought you could still use it without being logged in.
Nope, deleted my google account a year and a half ago. I have my own domain that proton handles for me so i can do like “finance@mydomain.com”, or " catchall@mydomain.com" and those are automatically sorted into their own folders.
I still use an outlook email. Since most email (which is unencrypted during transmission) pass through microsoft server anyway; unless you are emailing another protonmail account, but I have yet to see another one of my contact using protonmail.
Also protonmail’s UX is honestly pretty bad, since I have a work email not from proton. So I will need two email client on my phone, unless I selfhost a bridge on a server that I can connect to from everywhere.
Thank you! I rarely see talk about how shit their app is. I signed up somewhat recently and it’s dog slow on Android or the web portal. It’s just a hot mess. I’m currently testing Fastmail and the UI and performance is much better. I do understand there are some lacking privacy features with FM though, so still messing with it.
