• nelson@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    I don’t fully agree. Mails from companies ( password resets, ads, … ) aren’t necessarily passing by Google/m$ servers. So you’ve got that privacy. If you use an aliasing service ( which they also seem to offer ) then they can’t tie it directly to the same person/email.

    So there definitely is some privacy gain, though if you’re emailing [email protected] and [email protected], the whole conversation is available to that bigtech firm as the email will be sent in plaintext.

    I’d say it’s a step in the right direction.

    I don’t know atomic mail, so I can’t vouch for them. I’m also not able to do proper research on it right now. So maybe somebody else can pitch in on that part.

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      23 hours ago

      Most of the sites you are talking about use mail services run by oligarchs and large corporations. I’m pretty sure 95% any mail you receive is stored and scanned by multiple governments.

      And unless the mail is double encrypted on both sides it’s going to also be read.