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I have this bad feeling daily that for whatever reason I loose access to my gmail. Don't think of anything shady but simply I just loose it. There is a very small chance to it but still. You can read the stories that people uploaded their family photos to google drive and the algorithm marks their kids photos CP and they loose their account. Or maybe your email is used to spam or anything similar. There is no way to talk to google support, it is an endless loop of help pages. I just can't live with this. I know billions of people do, but I cannot. My email address is registered to hundreds of websites including government and banking sites. You could literally destroy me financially or other ways by just gaining login to my gmail. Google could cause me HUGE problems by locking me out. I decided to start transitioning to an email with my own domain. I have the doimain, I have the email client setup. So what do you do with your existing stuff? Most websites dont even let you change the email. I have to take appointment in government offices to change my email. It seems like a giant task.

Have anyone took this leap?

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[-] Srootus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I moved from gmail. Best thing to do is use an email aliasing service like anonaddy, all my aliases forward to a Tutanota email, but if Tutanota decides to do something drastic, I'm able to change where each email address points to.

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[-] Sygheil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Never had gmail, I used my ancient hotmail to signup for a google account.

[-] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I started by having my gmail forward to an alias email that goes to a newer more privacy focused email.

From there I would just update account when I got an email from them or the next time I used an account. It is slower then just going through all your accounts on your password manager, but its less daunting and typically the accounts you use the most are going to get updated quickly anyway.

At this point my gmail functions as a "professional sounding" alias for when I am not going to bust out my phone to create an alias for something I am doing in person.

As for something like gdrive, best practice is to have more then one backup, and encrypt what you put on cloud servers to avoid any scanning issues.

[-] handvat@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

In addition to the other advice given in this thread, set an autoreply in your gmail that telld you that you have switched email addresses and include your new address. This way, people know of your new email address if someone still manages to mail you on your old email address.

[-] davi@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

make periodic backups of your gmail account content on your own computer(s) and setup auto responder on gmail to use a new email address; easy peasy

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