I created a proton email out of curiosity and now can’t help but wonder if it’s really worth it. How do you use it?

For me it would mean having:

  1. University email
  2. Outlook for my PC cause I don’t want PC and phone stuff to mix up
  3. Gmail (for my google account) on the phone (PlayStore, Maps, google chrome…)
  4. Proton mail

But how do you use it? Let’s say I use it on Lemmy… But I’m still using Google Chrome for Lemmy Even if I avoided Gmail by using the proton email to create my google account, I’m still using Google services bc of apps and PlayStore, how does this work?

If I don’t use personal email for much unless these google/Microsoft related stuff, does it still make sense having one and keeping it separate from anything else?

  • safesyrup@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    4 months ago

    When time comes, you can change the mail address of you gmail and other non-proton mails to the proton mail and eventually get rid of the other mails that are no longer used.

    And of course you can use firefox instead of chrome.

    When i migrated to protonmail i just set up an auto-forward on my old address to the new proton address.

    • Techhh@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 months ago

      Yes but all the apps on your phone didn’t you still use a google account to have them? What to do about play store? (In case of android)

      • jeffreyosborne@lemm.ee
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        4 months ago

        There are lots of different app stores like F-Droid and Aurora Store. You can also sideload APK files that you cough legally acquire.

          • Oneser@lemm.ee
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            4 months ago

            I would add that to use these stores it is HELPFUL (not mandatory) to understand what they are presenting.

            F-Droid is a store for open source software, normally maintained (or not) by teams of passionate people or volunteers.

            Aurora store is a mask over the Google play store, which can use an anonymous account to download files from the Google play store. The Aurora store may not be ideal of you are working with paid apps, but it is worth reading up before you blindly jump in here.

            There is also the !privacy@lemmy.world or !privacy@lemmy.ml groups which can help if you want to de-google.

    • bazingabot@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      This process took for me a year or so…but now I am finally there. 3 protonmail accts and nothing else.

      One for personal/family/bank/official/insurance One for everything which I need longer…e.g. Logins to webpages One for online shopping/tickets…this one I delete every 12 months and create new, because here annoying spam from vendors is piling up