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I refuse to give any information to email providers. But they don't like that, they think they are our mothers.
I've lost permanent access to both hotmail and gmail accounts because of their invasive touchy "security" protocols.
Gmail
"We've detected unusual activity on the account you're trying to access. To continue, please follow the instructions below. Provide a phone number to continue. We'll send a verification code you can use to sign in."
So what, anyone with a phone can access my account, that's security to you clowns?!? Well you aren't getting my my phone number. I tried smsreceivefree.com textnow.me, even googles own program to try and fool it, but it says those numbers have been used too many times for verification with all of those.
So fine, hotmail accounts lost, gmail accounts lost. I just had ALL of my correspondence on them. Well its been more than a year since I lost access to them anyway.
So I need a email service that doesn't ask for phone number or block me for cryptic reasons (or ever, just my name and secure password should be enough)
Some other services I've tried.
Safe-mail.net.
Pros, no dumb "security" problems, log in real simple and direct. Loads fast.
Cons. 3mb space. I never download my emails. I just leave them on the email provider. Just a few ad emails from some of the online stores I buy from quickly fill that up. Plus one of my accounts with them is innudated with spam. No matter how many domains I block they just keep coming. And their system for marking for spam and then deleting is super duper cumbersome, slow, difficulty to use. It takes forever to just work my way through a bit of spam, blocking, deleting etc, and for it to never do any good anyway. They never reply to emails either.
yandex.com
pros, plenty of space, online storage for files. Rather transparent and somewhat easy to use.
Cons. buggers like tracking you. It allows you to see a history of when, what and where you do everything, which means it records all that. And no seeming way to disable this. Worse, digging through the help file it has a autoblock system too. So at least if I am careless and ever use it on Tor or VPN then I get blocked. Just no, never block!
Uknown whether they reply, I just made an account with them today and send support inquiry. It was not easy to find their support ticket thing anyway.
mail.com. I see in another thread on this forum that they have blocked people, and that their support never replies.
Openmailbox.org
Unknown if they ever track IPs etc and block etc. But their support never replies and everything in it is super slow. Logging in, changing boxes etc. Every action requires like 15 second wait or something. Also hard to figure out how to use alot of it.
Juno was mentioned, but trying to sign up it requires alot of personal information, even if it doesn't ask for phone number in first page (maybe it asks next page anyway) and checks veracity too. I tried entering random gibberish for an address and it recognized that it wasn't a legit address. I could spend a bunch of time trying to fool it. But if it's this invasive and finicky up front, probably not worth it.
Other services like yahoo require phone verification now.
Email service with my ISP. Works fine. But since my ISP service prices have shot up, I need to switch to someone else. And with the new ones, maybe I'll need to switch again in the future. I need a portable online web email service that is completely ISP independent.
Also some email service providers block emails from certain domains without your permission or control, like my ISP does as I learned when I tried to send a mail from my safe-mail.net email to my ISP email.
So can anyone please point me to a free web email service that meets my requirements? No phone requirements, never blocking, decent mail storage space size, spam filter that works well, limited/no tracking (more optional, I can live with some tracking if the rest match up)
I've lost permanent access to both hotmail and gmail accounts because of their invasive touchy "security" protocols.
Gmail
"We've detected unusual activity on the account you're trying to access. To continue, please follow the instructions below. Provide a phone number to continue. We'll send a verification code you can use to sign in."
So what, anyone with a phone can access my account, that's security to you clowns?!? Well you aren't getting my my phone number. I tried smsreceivefree.com textnow.me, even googles own program to try and fool it, but it says those numbers have been used too many times for verification with all of those.
So fine, hotmail accounts lost, gmail accounts lost. I just had ALL of my correspondence on them. Well its been more than a year since I lost access to them anyway.
So I need a email service that doesn't ask for phone number or block me for cryptic reasons (or ever, just my name and secure password should be enough)
Some other services I've tried.
Safe-mail.net.
Pros, no dumb "security" problems, log in real simple and direct. Loads fast.
Cons. 3mb space. I never download my emails. I just leave them on the email provider. Just a few ad emails from some of the online stores I buy from quickly fill that up. Plus one of my accounts with them is innudated with spam. No matter how many domains I block they just keep coming. And their system for marking for spam and then deleting is super duper cumbersome, slow, difficulty to use. It takes forever to just work my way through a bit of spam, blocking, deleting etc, and for it to never do any good anyway. They never reply to emails either.
yandex.com
pros, plenty of space, online storage for files. Rather transparent and somewhat easy to use.
Cons. buggers like tracking you. It allows you to see a history of when, what and where you do everything, which means it records all that. And no seeming way to disable this. Worse, digging through the help file it has a autoblock system too. So at least if I am careless and ever use it on Tor or VPN then I get blocked. Just no, never block!
Uknown whether they reply, I just made an account with them today and send support inquiry. It was not easy to find their support ticket thing anyway.
mail.com. I see in another thread on this forum that they have blocked people, and that their support never replies.
Openmailbox.org
Unknown if they ever track IPs etc and block etc. But their support never replies and everything in it is super slow. Logging in, changing boxes etc. Every action requires like 15 second wait or something. Also hard to figure out how to use alot of it.
Juno was mentioned, but trying to sign up it requires alot of personal information, even if it doesn't ask for phone number in first page (maybe it asks next page anyway) and checks veracity too. I tried entering random gibberish for an address and it recognized that it wasn't a legit address. I could spend a bunch of time trying to fool it. But if it's this invasive and finicky up front, probably not worth it.
Other services like yahoo require phone verification now.
Email service with my ISP. Works fine. But since my ISP service prices have shot up, I need to switch to someone else. And with the new ones, maybe I'll need to switch again in the future. I need a portable online web email service that is completely ISP independent.
Also some email service providers block emails from certain domains without your permission or control, like my ISP does as I learned when I tried to send a mail from my safe-mail.net email to my ISP email.
So can anyone please point me to a free web email service that meets my requirements? No phone requirements, never blocking, decent mail storage space size, spam filter that works well, limited/no tracking (more optional, I can live with some tracking if the rest match up)
