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this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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I just do what is easy for me, some things are not worth the hassle of switching to a privacy focused alternative.
For example replacing google drive with Syncthing was really easy for my use cases. Gmail was easy with my own domain and a good email service.
Other things like facebook/reddit, banking, telegram, discord, etc.. I don't worry about it because the hassle factor is extreme.
Sorry for being dense, but how does this work exactly? Do you register your own domain as something like mangopenguin.com and then how do you get email to go through that?
Yep, you can register a domain through a company like namecheap or cloudflare. It's about $10 a year.
Then you just need an email service that supports custom domains, mailbox.org is a good one. Change your DNS records on your domain control panel to point to the servers given to you by your email service, and that's it.
And your outgoing emails aren't getting caught in Google's spam filters & what not?