If you’re already going through the trouble of leaving Google… leave subscription services altogether.
Think about the reasons and headaches involved in your Google migration: you don’t control their policies and what they do with your data, they can keep raising prices or killing features you want, migrating platforms is a mess, you are at the mercy of their abstractions and APIs, a board of directors change could turn the company into the opposite of what you trusted it for… Guess what, exactly all of the same points apply to Tuta, or Proton, or whoever else.
Don’t repeat the same mistake, don’t find yourself looking for a “de-Proton your life” guide 8 years from now. Have your pictures in your computer, there are many easy ways to organize, browse, and sync them. Keep copies of your music. Keep backups, they’re automatic, encrypted and compressed nowadays. Have your own calendar and notes, you can pick from a multitude of choices with any UI imaginable. Sync your files with SyncThing, it’s faster and more powerful than whatever “cloud” you could get.
What about the email? How do you deal with the issue, when everything needs a registration, but it doesn’t accept your kadu@kadu.ninja custom email, because it “doesn’t look like a legit address”? That happened to me multiple time with a smaller provider. Also you might not be able to send mail to e.g. gmail because you don’t have the latest <insert whatever certification> on your server. Or when your server gets hacked, it sends a shitton of spam, gets blacklisted, and it will be impossible to get rid of that
For email you could self host if you learn a bit about warming up and deliverability, but I agree that’s the only exception where people should just use an online service.
Though for privacy, I do use the custom domain with Purelyemail as the host, but if a site is trashy enough to not allow me to use my email - then I distrust it automatically, and use a Gmail account I don’t care nor use for anything but accepting those email confirmations for account creations, or when stores force me to say an email before adding a coupon or something like that.
If you’re already going through the trouble of leaving Google… leave subscription services altogether.
Think about the reasons and headaches involved in your Google migration: you don’t control their policies and what they do with your data, they can keep raising prices or killing features you want, migrating platforms is a mess, you are at the mercy of their abstractions and APIs, a board of directors change could turn the company into the opposite of what you trusted it for… Guess what, exactly all of the same points apply to Tuta, or Proton, or whoever else.
Don’t repeat the same mistake, don’t find yourself looking for a “de-Proton your life” guide 8 years from now. Have your pictures in your computer, there are many easy ways to organize, browse, and sync them. Keep copies of your music. Keep backups, they’re automatic, encrypted and compressed nowadays. Have your own calendar and notes, you can pick from a multitude of choices with any UI imaginable. Sync your files with SyncThing, it’s faster and more powerful than whatever “cloud” you could get.
What about the email? How do you deal with the issue, when everything needs a registration, but it doesn’t accept your kadu@kadu.ninja custom email, because it “doesn’t look like a legit address”? That happened to me multiple time with a smaller provider. Also you might not be able to send mail to e.g. gmail because you don’t have the latest <insert whatever certification> on your server. Or when your server gets hacked, it sends a shitton of spam, gets blacklisted, and it will be impossible to get rid of that
For email you could self host if you learn a bit about warming up and deliverability, but I agree that’s the only exception where people should just use an online service.
Though for privacy, I do use the custom domain with Purelyemail as the host, but if a site is trashy enough to not allow me to use my email - then I distrust it automatically, and use a Gmail account I don’t care nor use for anything but accepting those email confirmations for account creations, or when stores force me to say an email before adding a coupon or something like that.