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I used to use gmail but am now looking for alternatives which are safer and better to use?

https://prism-break.org/en/all/

this might also be helpfull if you want to free yourself from other things.

Edit: Id also keep the gmail account for non private/important stuff.

They all have about the same amount of privacy (that is, none) if you don't take any extra precautions; there's https://protonmail.ch/ based out of Switzerland but I believe there's a line to get an account, plus it's only useful if you use it with other protonmail addresses since, say, if you send an email from there to a gmail account, Google still keeps an unsecured copy the NSA can get to.

There are some solutions to privacy over email, e.g. encryption (which the NSA is working hard to crack mind you), but it's very impractical for the average user; unless you're Snowden or Assange, it's probably not worth the effort.  You'd have to figure a secure way to trade keys with your recipient so you can encrypt each others emails, which of course gets complicated with people who don't see the point of doing so, or just don't have that kind of technical understanding.

Aside from that, gmail seems like the best choice for non-sensitive email: http://alternativeto.net/software/gmail/

Privacy is only needed for crook and people who deem important enough. Most users don't fit into this category.

I thought as much gmail is probably the best option and is probably the most stable without much downtime. I've tried outlook but didn't get on with that.

you can try this one.
http://www.mail.com
you can choose domain that you want like : @lawyer, @post, @asia, @architech etc.

You are an idiot.


Article 12. UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a12


So when you where said "safer" what exactly did you have in mind? Better protection from hacks or better protection of your privacy?

gmail or yahoo mail.

No votes for AOL mail, connecting thru dial up, on a cordless phone?

Shocking  ;D

there are many of them yahoo, gmail , gmx , just reserach on google they will provide you a list of email providers

I still think that Gmail is the best email provider.
I also using yahoo and hotmail, but not much as before.

None are safe really unless you encrypt all your messages. Maybe some tor email services may be safer.


Agreed. If you don't care about privacy do you mind if people watch whilst you have a shower? Or maybe youre a voyeur and are into that sort of stuff  ;D.

for out in the public stuff {work stuff} i use outlook, for others i use mail.com and for games and things that are going to spam me, i use hide my ass anonymous

Gmail is best so far. Never have a missing email or being down for long.

perhaps

if you like them scanning trough your mails

hushmail is great

Buy a domain, buy a offshore vps or offshore hosting or use a spare pc in your home and become the email provider yourself.

IMO gmail is the best. Google has proven to be very reliable, very innovative and has a corporate motto of "do no evil"

For now, gmail is sufficient. Google could turn out to be extremely evil and snoopative (is that a word?) but for now they will do. Gmail is a great service.

If you buy a VPS, you need to trust the company hosting it.

I would NEVER trust anyone other than me to handle my privacy and neither should you, you should always use PGP to encrypt private emails and do the encryption on your PC (not using your providers server-side tools).

The email provider I use is https://unseen.is
They are based out of and hosted in Iceland and are OK although they lack the functionality of using "+" aliases in email addresses. I PGP encrypt anything sensitive so I do not need to trust them - the main driving factor behind choosing them was the cool domain...  ;D

They openly admit that automated systems read your emails looking for keywords so they can target ads to you. Additionally there is the whole NSA having access to their stored data fiasco.

There are also some scary stories:

http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-teens-spied-on-chats

http://www.wired.com/2010/01/operation-aurora/

And also check out these pages:

https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/

https://google.com/history

Is there any email provider now that is based on tor? I saw some before but I havent tried it.

There was once tormail but that had a problematic faith, it was hosted on a server that also hosted kiddy porn sites so it was attacked by the FBI.

Due to the way email works running an email server on a Tor hidden service is pointless as the IP of the server or a gateway server has to be known in order to receive email.

You can use Tor with almost any email provider including gmail.

Create an anonymous email using tor in gmail how would they know it was you? Or better start using bit message.

Hard to beat Gmail if only for their excellent 2FA. 2FA sms is invaluable to me and it should be to you too. Nothing worse than getting your email or exchange accounts hacked when you are dabbling with btc and altcoins.

Find me another email service with 2FA as good as Gmail's.

Oh God, thanks for the laugh....ahh that was good.  That might have been Google's motto in 1999.  Nowadays I see them and Apple as the corporate behemoths who cowtoe to the US gov.

While email isn't ever secure with encryption, I trust Outlook with my privacy a little more.

For safety nothing is easier than Google 2FA though - a must have for exchanges.

They may not allow you to use tor when registering.

Let us know if you are able to get this done.

bitmessage is really good, gmail, mail, yahoo but you wont get anonimity  with these

Since there are various PGP software providers to choose from (GoAnywhere, Gpg4win etc)
Do you have a few you could recommend?  

Gmail is fine for me, just use two-factor auth. and you should be safe.

Do people use hushmail?

Gmail is fine for me

I have my personal blackberry address :)

Gmail still the best.

yes, if they don't want to be spied :D

I'm using countermail. https://countermail.com

This is useless. You are still relying on their word that they are actually encrypting your messages and not saving the original before encrypting it. There is no way you can know they don't do this without doing the encryption yourself.

You can PGP encrypt it on your PC before sending and eliminate this risk entirely - you can do this with ANY mail provider - no need to pay countermail for something you can't be sure they actually do.


From what I understand those are just frontends, most of these use GnuPG as a backend which is the de-facto standard:

https://gnupg.org/

GnuPG is a command-line tool, so if you find it difficult to use you might want to install a frontend too or an email client that has plugins for it like thunderbird.

Frontends:
https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/frontends.html

thunderbird plugin:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/enigmail/

I can read, so I assure you I am not an idiot.

Not true.

Most people (like you) don't deem privacy important enough until its too late and your privacy has been violated in a very bad way. Once it happens to you you'll understand why privacy is incredibly important.

It's similar to health. There are a lot of people who do not care much about their health until they get very sick - then they realize your health is more important than anything else.

I prefer Gmail. Although sometimes I prefer the interface of Outlook's web app (Hotmail).

For people who use gmail, don't forget you are giving up your privacy for free service.

You can be sure the other big players do the same. Gmail is just a bit more upfront about it.

I prefer Gmail since I have a Chromebook. It auto-syncs on my Chromebook, tablet and phone so I don't use anything else.

Thanks for the story links this is why I wanted to find a better free or paid email host. I know a lot of people use .pp and .gmx and was wondering why.

This is not a good idea, there is no way in hell you can get this secure enough, even if you know what you're doing.
2nd problem is, most mail provider you send mails to will treat your mail as spam.

I prefer gmail.

2nd problem is not true, it depends on your hosting ip. If your hosting ip is flagged as source of spam your email will be flagged, but if you are using clean hosting ip your ip won't be mark as spam.

I prefer Yahoo Mail

Gmail and Yahoo

gmail is solid

gmail is best

I find Gmail is best out there. I have tried yahoo, outlook, mail.com and some others but they can't beat the gmail.

i use both g mail and Hotmail....both are good...

I've just switched to https://posteo.de (https://posteo.de).

It's a small provider in berlin/germany. It's not free, but for 1 euro/month you don't get any ads.

Unfortunately I think you get lost on their website if you can't understand german.  :)

The guardian has written something about them: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/24/posteo-protect-email-the-german-way-patrik-lohr (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/24/posteo-protect-email-the-german-way-patrik-lohr)

IMO gmail is the best major email service provider, they are easy to use, good spam filtering and convenient. There might be some good quality but smaller options though.

I the past I used hotmail and yahoo.
Now, I prefer gmail, it's the most convenient for me. 

I prefer Gmail and Hotmail.

I felt secured using gmail.com.

great list
http://prxbx.com/email/

OpenMailbox.org is decent, but the network goes down on occasion. They say they don't log you and they aren't in the states.

gmail of course

Those of you who are using Gmail and Facebook are just widening the massive database these companies and in turn the Govt. have for predicting your every move and probably your political affiliations. Every time your send or receive a message they are using powerful algorithms to determine as much as they can about you and those you are in contact with. Don't think that since you aren't "doing anything wrong" that there is no risk. These companies use this info to attempt to lead the public in subtle ways whether your are aware of it or not.

Gmail users are just adding to Google's coffers and widening the asymmetrical information gap between the corporate elite and  the rest of us.

Cut it out.....

>2014
>not using selfhosted

outlook, is what i use u can connect it to facebook, skype or twitter and use it to instant message with only one site

aol very easy to use and not many changes over the years

Gmail is good for me

Gmail is the best one out there.

wtf , That really is scary , bye bye Gmail

I prefer the interface of Yahoo mail

Gmail is the best email provider. Very fast, simply to use and much intuitive, and in terms of safe, google has proven to be reliable in this time, after hacks attack. I hope that there will not be other problem in future.

Gmail and outlook

Gmail is a very good email provider

Mail.com that's what i use but when i tell people they always gets confused in it.. it's mail.com or gmail.com lol  :)

I prefer Gmail, and I think Gmail is the best because Gmail app on android is very useful.

Just found out outlook bans Tor....so I'm going to switch to probably yandex as they seem the best.

gmail is prob the only thing out there thats free and legit.

The only free & legit one? No far from it there are hundreds/thousands which are legit and free and probably better than gmail.

yeah it works really well with my dialup connection too

Does it allow Tor?

there's no need; aol has a free proxy service so you can watch netflix :-)

Aol sucks  :D :D :D :D

I really hope you were being sarcastic?

It's actually pretty good I've been using it for years now.

Aol & Yandex is the biggest pile of shit I've come across gmail is the best.

hushmail or safemail.net

for me Gmail is the best till now.

uh, obviously gmail.  :D

Gmail
Best of the best
email provider.

google mail is a fail.

try mail.com

No confirmation sms nonsense and no lock of accounts if they have funny names

Outlook is great.

I use outlook and gmail

gmail  :)

fastmail is the best one, main reason it's not US based

It used to be lavabit.
Now its Bitmessage.ch and unseen.is in my opinion.

After Gmail, my search was ended for a good email provider.

gmail is an answer for your question
you should go for google email service

Gmail is the best.

Never heard about this one.

Gmail, Yandex, Aol, and outlook are the main ones.

Yahoo sucks!  8)

If you don't want every tom, dick and harry reading your personal emails, you'd be best avoiding all the popular NSA friendly email providers (yahoo,gmail etc)

check out http://prxbx.com/email/

TEMP emails gotta be 10 minute mail gets rid of a lot of spam from main email account.

scramble.io is another privacy oriented service. Very sparce, often down, but they do supply a ready-to-use encryption solution for your mail.

gmail

I don't know about the best.....but stay away from bloody yandex you dont recieve half of the emails which have been sent to your address.

Thanks for the link. I was looking for that list for a while now.

Ive been using outlook ever since.

I think there is one called safemail.net, based in Israel, that's supposed to be one of the safest mail providers, but you never know :)

Just started using Zoho last month and really have no complaints.  Good service.

yahoo

my obvious guess would be gmail. then using yahoo.

Zoho's free service is particularly useful if you want to use your own domain.

Gmail for sure

I logged into two Zoho accounts I abandoned at least two, three years ago. Nice they didn't delete my accounts for inactivity.

I had a slow connection at the time and really disliked the zoho interface. It took forever to load back then.

They have bumped up storage to 5 gigs and implemented 2FA. Sweet!

Still no ads. Sweet!

been using Gmail since 2008 or so

Yahoo sucks. AOL sucks too.

Well for me, gmail is better than yahoo.

I am inclined towards gmail myself, have been using it for a long time now. What other providers have 2fa?

I like gmail. I don't use anything else. Got used to the interface. :)

Outlook and Gmail that's all haven't even used anything else  :-\

outlook and gmail...
I cannot really make up my mind between the two.

i've used yahoo hotmail mail.com gmail the best is gmail so far.

gmail is the best

Gmail, of course.

I dont like the recent upgrades they have done, and I am continuing with the old format.

You can try with Confidesk!
Encrypted e-mail and file storage with the best Swiss quality: https://chwww1.confidesk.com/auth/register/?ref=1708 (https://chwww1.confidesk.com/auth/register/?ref=1708)

mail.com of course