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Great! I like getting tracked by 766 third parties! thanks Outlook (cdn.masto.host)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is why you should use your own domain. If you want to change who's handling your email, you just change your DNS MX record to a new, different host and all your mail ends up there instead. The services don't have to know a single thing about what's going on - the next time they send an email out, DNS will simply resolve to the new mail server.

Here is an example of how you would do it with Proton

[–] subtext 3 points 11 months ago

I do this now, but I’m still stuck with a few errant accounts that still use my gmail from high school / college.