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   The Icarian (the_icarian@federated.press)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 07:04:54 JST The Icarian

   I've had my gmail account since the days when you need an invite to get one. Remember that?
   Now I'm trying to slowly phase it out while using more secure methods and providers who don't scrape my every word for their databases.
   For the past few weeks I've been using a VPN. Gmail apparently doesn't like that.
   I can access my gmail from my phone where I haven't been using a VPN. But not the desktop where I use VPN, gmail refuses to log me in.
   This will hasten my gmail departure.
   Thanks Google

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     Misuse Case (misusecase@twit.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 07:10:17 JST Misuse Case

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     @The_Icarian @bmacDonald94 I had my Gmail account since the invite-only days, too! I am not sure what to switch to, let alone how to start moving off it.

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     Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance! (old_hippie@veganism.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 07:13:24 JST Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance!

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     @MisuseCase @The_Icarian @bmacDonald94 Take a look at proton mail. I'm in the process of switching from Gmail to proton.

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     The Icarian (the_icarian@federated.press)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 07:17:17 JST The Icarian

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     @MisuseCase @bmacDonald94
     Proton is one choice and that's where I'm going. I get a lot of email so I pay $3.99 a mo., but that gives a basic VPN, calendar and some other things. I may upgrade to $9.99 per months so I can use VPN on my phone also.
     I'm not endorsing Proton per se, there are other alternatives.

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     The Icarian (the_icarian@federated.press)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 07:21:33 JST The Icarian

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     @bmacDonald94 @old_hippie @MisuseCase Huh. My experience has been good so far. I had it for awhile before I realized I had the VPN feature, but I didn't start using it regularly until recently.

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     Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance! (old_hippie@veganism.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 07:24:06 JST Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance!

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     @bmacDonald94 @MisuseCase @The_Icarian This is what they say on their site.

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     resisting (resisting@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 07:26:37 JST resisting

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     @MisuseCase @The_Icarian @bmacDonald94 Posteo is a great email service that has a really easy data migration tool. You should definitely check Posteo out!

     https://posteo.de/en

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     The Icarian (the_icarian@federated.press)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 07:26:37 JST The Icarian

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     @resisting @MisuseCase @bmacDonald94 I'll check it. I'll never have just one provider again. Been through AOL who kept charging me $9 after I cancelled. Had to have lawyer send a letter to stop them. Remember Prodigy? Used that briefly until Microsoft did underhanded tings to kill it. I was on Compuserve for eight years and had an email address that was an unremarkable string of numbers. Didn't mater. The whole time I didn't know anyone else with email.

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     Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance! (old_hippie@veganism.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 07:35:42 JST Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance!

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     @bmacDonald94 @MisuseCase @The_Icarian Yes I would be upset also. I was also looking at fastmail but couldn't find if they had any issues with VPN . https://www.fastmail.com/

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     The Icarian (the_icarian@federated.press)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 08:00:19 JST The Icarian

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     @MisuseCase @old_hippie @bmacDonald94 Same here. My prior use of VPNs was occasional -- I wanted to watch UK TV in the USA, I was in Europe and need a US ip address. That kind of stuff.
     Now I feel a VPN is mandatory at all times.

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     Misuse Case (misusecase@twit.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 08:00:21 JST Misuse Case

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     @old_hippie @bmacDonald94 @The_Icarian I use a VPN so I would want an email provider that works okay with a VPN.

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