• Mikina@programming.dev
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    12 hours ago

    I see a few people who don’t want to switch due to the hassle it would take with changing email addresses, presumably because they use one of the @proton.me email domains. Get your own email domain! It’s super cheap (if you choose one of the new TLDs, it can be as low as few dollars a year), the setup isn’t really hard - you just change a few DNS values, and that’s basically it - you can use whatever email you want that ends with your domain. It might take a while to slowly replace all your @proton.me emails with your domain one, but if you’re not in a hurry and change any old mail you see during your day-to-day activities, you’ll eventually be done with it, and you can set up mail forwarding to your domain for mail that arrives to your old @proton.me address.

    And if you ever need to move to a different provider, you just change the DNS records again to a new provider, and your email will start coming to the new one immediately.