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?

  • jeffreyosborne@lemm.ee
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    2 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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        2 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.