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Are private email providers worth it?
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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2025
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Could you elaborate? What is an email hotel? I'm guessing you mean an email hosting.
just like a webhotel, just for mail instead... So yeah, like you can pay someone to host your website, you can pay someone to host your e-mails with your domain name...
That sounds like the worst option of all. At least I can trust google has some protections in place to stop employees from looking at you email, because if they didn't there would be thousands of cases all the time.
In your case, you never know who is looking. At any point a rogue admin can issue a bank password reset and just read the email
I've never heard of the term web hotel before. I'm guessing its web hosting
Sounds like you don't know what you are talking about. :-) That's fine, but unless you know something about the topic, you shouldn't really be judging...
I know exactly who is looking. And I would also know if anyone tampers with the passwords. I guess you don't have the skills, and that's fine. You might even think that there's anything in the world that is totally secure. There's not a single thing that is secure.
Oh, what is this? - https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/08/25/google-warns-most-gmail-users-must-change-passwords/
Good for you
Google literally opens all your email and scans the contents to build an ad profile on you. They scan all attachments too.
Of course. But you didn't switch to a trustless provider. You switch to a nobody that has nothing to lose by reading you email. Also my point is that google has programs reading every email, but not people. They probably have a lot of locks to stop employees form accessing users email