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Google keeps a log of all your electronic parts, brakes, tools, and automotive tires digital receipts emailed to your GMail account.
Thanks to purposefully helpful suggestions by rbowman & Clare Snyder in
this thread, we have five potential replacement free mail services to consider. Moving the on-topic potluck forward, I add value by reporting that I tested for the team the following five mail services, all of which seem to be potentially viable as Gmail replacements; however, my assessment is based only on _preliminary_ tests over the past couple of days only (where time will tell whether these five mail services are viable Google alternatives). o GMX <https://www.gmx.com/mail/> o Proton Mail <https://protonmail.com/> o Tutanota <https://tutanota.com/> o Yandex <https://mail.yandex.com/> o Zoho <https://www.zoho.com/mail/> GMX: o Unknown storage limit o Required Mr or Ms gender selection o Required a first & last name o Required a country, and, for the USA, a state o Required a DOB o Password must be at least 8 characters o Required a password-recovery selection (SMS or email) o Required a phone number for SMS verification (but didn't use it???) o Required captcha (easy fire-hydrant single-pass stuff) o Doesn't inform you the username is valid until late in the game Proton: o 500MB storage & 150 messages per day limit o Allows choice of domain (protonmail.com, protonmail.ch) o Recovery email is optional o Doesn't require gender or name or DOB or location or phone, etc. o Informs you in real time whether the username is taken or available o Password must be at least 6 characters o Choice of verification by captcha, email, sms, or donation o Captcha is easy one-pass fire-hydrant stuff o Asks to "show notifications" (which you can block or allow) Tutanota: o 1 GB limit o Doesn't require gender or name or DOB or location or phone, etc. o Requires a strong password of undetermined characters (at least 8) o Tells you the password cannot be reset (so choose wisely, I guess) o Informs you in real time whether the username is taken or available o Asks you to write down 64 hex character "recovery code" Yandex: o Unknown storage limit o Requires only first name & surname o Informs you in real time whether the username is taken or available o Requires a strong password of undetermined characters (at least 8) o Asks for telephone number but lets you skip in favor of security question o Allows you to write your own custom security question & custom answer o Requires a simple Captcha-like typing of screenshot words Zoho o 5GB storage limit o Requires only first name & last name o Username must be more than 6 characters o Password literally requires 8 letters even if it's much longer than that o Requires mobile phone number to send SMS verification code o Accepts free second-line mobile phone software SMS numbers though o Asks to enable 2FA but you can skip it "for now" o Save the numeric "user id" which shows up after you create the account If you have data to share to improve the quick summary above, or, if you know of _other_ free gmail service replacements, please let us know as Usenet is a potluck where everyone is expected to bring something of value to share. |
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Google keeps a log of all your electronic parts, brakes, tools,and automotive tires digital receipts emailed to your GMail account.
On 05/22/2019 12:49 AM, Arlen G. Holder wrote:
> Yandex: > o Unknown storage limit > o Requires only first name & surname > o Informs you in real time whether the username is taken or available > o Requires a strong password of undetermined characters (at least 8) > o Asks for telephone number but lets you skip in favor of security question > o Allows you to write your own custom security question & custom answer > o Requires a simple Captcha-like typing of screenshot words Russian collusion! The Russians are coming! Oddly I'm at the point where I trust the Russians more than our homegrown Stasi. I've been using Kaspersky on my Windows boxes for a long time. If it's stealing my data at least it doesn't let other people grab it. |
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Google keeps a log of all your electronic parts, brakes, tools,and automotive tires digital receipts emailed to your GMail account.
On Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 9:25:34 AM UTC-5, rbowman wrote:
> On 05/22/2019 12:49 AM, Arlen G. Holder wrote: > > Yandex: > > o Unknown storage limit > > o Requires only first name & surname > > o Informs you in real time whether the username is taken or available > > o Requires a strong password of undetermined characters (at least 8) > > o Asks for telephone number but lets you skip in favor of security question > > o Allows you to write your own custom security question & custom answer > > o Requires a simple Captcha-like typing of screenshot words > > Russian collusion! The Russians are coming! Oddly I'm at the point where > I trust the Russians more than our homegrown Stasi. I've been using > Kaspersky on my Windows boxes for a long time. If it's stealing my data > at least it doesn't let other people grab it. BRAVE browser is suppose to be good. There is an APP. |
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Google keeps a log of all your electronic parts, brakes, tools,and automotive tires digital receipts emailed to your GMail account.
On 5/23/19 9:59 AM, bitrex wrote:
>> I think a lot of the Russian hype is a smokescreen. A lot of the >> really evil stuff comes from a small middle eastern country Trump >> seems to love. >> >> > > Saudi Arabia? A lot of US presidents have seemed to love them which is > surprising given just how horrible they are. Not exactly a role-model. > > Imagine if after discovering the Japanese government was responsible for Pearl Harbor instead of lighting them up the US government signed a crude oil purchase agreement and sold them our latest aircraft <boggle> |
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Google keeps a log of all your electronic parts, brakes, tools, and automotive tires digital receipts emailed to your GMail account.
"bitrex" > wrote in message ... > On 5/23/19 9:59 AM, bitrex wrote: > >>> I think a lot of the Russian hype is a smokescreen. A lot of the really >>> evil stuff comes from a small middle eastern country Trump seems to >>> love. >>> >>> >> >> Saudi Arabia? A lot of US presidents have seemed to love them which is >> surprising given just how horrible they are. Not exactly a role-model. >> >> > > Imagine if after discovering the Japanese government was responsible for > Pearl Harbor instead of lighting them up the US government signed a crude > oil purchase agreement and sold them our latest aircraft <boggle> Saudi has never done anything even remotely like Pearl Harbor. |
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Google keeps a log of all your electronic parts, brakes, tools,and automotive tires digital receipts emailed to your GMail account.
On 5/23/19 12:03 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
> > > "bitrex" > wrote in message > ... >> On 5/23/19 9:59 AM, bitrex wrote: >> >>>> I think a lot of the Russian hype is a smokescreen. A lot of the >>>> really evil stuff comes from a small middle eastern country Trump >>>> seems to love. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Saudi Arabia? A lot of US presidents have seemed to love them which >>> is surprising given just how horrible they are. Not exactly a >>> role-model. >>> >>> >> >> Imagine if after discovering the Japanese government was responsible >> for Pearl Harbor instead of lighting them up the US government signed >> a crude oil purchase agreement and sold them our latest aircraft <boggle> > > Saudi has never done anything even remotely like Pearl Harbor. Oh, honey. |
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Google keeps a log of all your electronic parts, brakes, tools,and automotive tires digital receipts emailed to your GMail account.
On 5/23/19 12:01 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>> I think a lot of the Russian hype is a smokescreen. A lot of the >>> really evil stuff comes from a small middle eastern country Trump >>> seems to love. > >> Saudi Arabia? A lot of US presidents have seemed to love them > > Not love them so much as realise that they arent as bad as some of the > others in the middle east. > > Same with Jordan. > > which is >> surprising given just how horrible they are. > > Not really. They only _occasionally_ decapitate and crucify prisoners |
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Google keeps a log of all your electronic parts, brakes, tools, and automotive tires digital receipts emailed to your GMail account.
"bitrex" > wrote in message ... > On 5/23/19 12:01 PM, Rod Speed wrote: > >>>> I think a lot of the Russian hype is a smokescreen. A lot of the really >>>> evil stuff comes from a small middle eastern country Trump seems to >>>> love. >> >>> Saudi Arabia? A lot of US presidents have seemed to love them >> >> Not love them so much as realise that they arent as bad as some of the >> others in the middle east. >> >> Same with Jordan. >> >> which is >>> surprising given just how horrible they are. >> >> Not really. > > They only _occasionally_ decapitate and crucify prisoners Sure, but the the USA still kills murderers. |
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Google keeps a log of all your electronic parts, brakes, tools,and automotive tires digital receipts emailed to your GMail account.
On 5/23/19 12:33 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
> > > "bitrex" > wrote in message > ... >> On 5/23/19 12:01 PM, Rod Speed wrote: >> >>>>> I think a lot of the Russian hype is a smokescreen. A lot of the >>>>> really evil stuff comes from a small middle eastern country Trump >>>>> seems to love. >>> >>>> Saudi Arabia? A lot of US presidents have seemed to love them >>> >>> Not love them so much as realise that they arent as bad as some of >>> the others in the middle east. >>> >>> Same with Jordan. >>> >>> which is >>>> surprising given just how horrible they are. >>> >>> Not really. >> >> They only _occasionally_ decapitate and crucify prisoners > > Sure, but the the USA still kills murderers. If a Soviet-style "and you are still lynching Negroes" is the rebuttal you're going to roll with I think we're done here, lol. |
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