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What do you think about Onion Mail?
(lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz)
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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I would be cautious with both. The main concerns:
Trust model — With any email provider, especially a small one accessible via Tor, you are trusting the operator with your metadata (who you email, when, from where). A .onion address does not magically make this trustworthy.
Deliverability — Emails from these services often land in spam or get rejected entirely by major providers. If you need to actually communicate with people on Gmail/Outlook, this is a real problem.
Longevity — Small Tor-based email services come and go. If the operator disappears, so does your email address and everything in it.
Better alternatives for privacy-focused email:
If your threat model specifically requires Tor-only communication, look into using Proton Mail via their .onion address, or use XMPP/Matrix over Tor instead of email entirely.
Do you feel like their comments are AI-generated? Just my feeling...