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?

  • dwindling7373@feddit.itEnglish
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    4 months ago
    1. Forward university email to your protonmail account
    2. PC and phone are not separated stuff, they are basically just different screen sizes. If you need some separation just make multiple protonmail accounts.
    3. If you don’t feel like going through the pain of degoogling, yes, you would keep a gmail account just for basic android funtionality. that does NOT mean every app registration ever. Those are separated companies that allow you to register with google and you should not do that, register using email -> protonmail.
    4. That’s… why I’m here.
          • dwindling7373@feddit.itEnglish
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            4 months ago

            Any other email. Google registration is not strictly about the email, it’s about registering with them. They also give you an email, but that’s not integral to, say, the strict necessities of Google Maps, it could just be a login and a password…