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Trying to de-google and looking for an alternative to Gmail.

Don't mind if it's a paid service if it's robust.

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[–] FancyFeaster@lemmy.fail 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ll be honest, when it comes to online purchases you may find that a protonmail email will require extra processing/fraud checking due to the amount of fraudsters that use it. Combine that with a vpn and it will just be a pain here and there with online purchases like additional ID verification/delayed orders etc…

[–] tycho@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Been using protonmail for my main email for three years, never had one issue. But I'm in Europe, maybe in the US it's different?

[–] FancyFeaster@lemmy.fail 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m more talking global purchases. Just the email will probs be ok but if you purchase using that email and a vpn it raises flags.

[–] shadow@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

This has happened exactly once to me, and it was the VPN, and not the email address.

Paid plan folks can also make use of simplelogin.io