"I just want my emails read by me and maybe the person I send it to" we even doubting the recipient now

"I want my emails to be read by me and *maybe* the person i am sending it to"

Skiff just announced they are going to shut down their services for ever

you should do a Mobile web browser tier list

This didn’t age well - trusting skiff with its venture capital was terrible

Just found you channel a couple of days ago and you convinced me to finally ditch Chrome for LibreWolf. Great content mate, thanks, new sub earned!

WOW, are you spying on me or what? After 4+ years of using Gmail, I decided I wanted to switch just a week ago!

Completely unrelated to privacy but the dog in the photo of the disroot site is Loukanikos, the famous Greek "riot dog" that was with us at every rally, he passed away about 10 years ago and seeing him made me very emotional.

This is super informative and I think the tier lists you do are great because they're really easy to watch. The chapters are really nice too

Having private mail is, in my country, required by law. But only snail mail, not e-mail. Shows how old laws are.

you should do a VPN tier list

Yahoo needs to be in a category BELOW Botnet Tier 💀 The other two at least come with a few gigs of cloud storage for your non-sensitive documents.

Personally I'd love to see these vids : Best private phone tier list Best private custom rom ( that works with the phone previously mentioned) tier list Best password manager tier list

"skiff lasting awhile"... is 9 months awhile? They've been acquired by Notion.

I've been very happily using Posteo for couple of years now. I really love their transparency. And them being an nature-friendly email client the small things they do accordingly, like working on minimizing server loads, not bothering by spam (by just blocking them, not marking). I love that they show their Javascript licenses and other small small things.

Hey! I stumbled upon your channel through the web browser video and I've been looking forward for your privacy tier lists so I can get the most private online experience yet! Thank you for all the elaborations

Thanks so much for the support! I'm one of the Skiff founders. Appreciate the feedback and review.

The Proton Mail controversy is really stupid, the only activist's information that Proton gave to the feds was an IP address, it's very similar to when Signal gave phone numbers and registration dates of a few users to the feds. But unlike a phone number, an IP address doesn't really mean anything and rebooting your router makes the old address completely useless.

I have been wanting to switch away from Gmail for years but the process of switching everything over to a new email has always put me off. Maybe there's an easy way that I simply don't know about.

Just found your channel through a few older videos and when browsing your channel i saw you had uploaded 55 seconds ago😅

If you use Proton mail or Tutanota because of the privacy .... please note, if you send email to something like gmail you still have no privacy.

How this channel doesn't have millions of subscribers yet is beyond me. Great analysis with in-depth research, even covering news, technologies and all! Thanks for making them understandable to not very techy individuals in this field like me. Anyways i subscribed! Awesome content man!

Just wanted to say thank you for your tier lists on private browsers, search engines, and now email clients. They've all been very helpful!

To all the people saying "I don't trust Proton": If you run a digital service business that handles customer data (email, eshop, ghost kitchen, date app etc), you *have* to comply with the government by law. Tutanota and every other email provider complies as well, Proton is just being transparent about it and that's a good thing; you know exactly what you're signing up for. I don't know why people ended up assuming Proton willingly goes out of their way to shill for the government.

Thanks for making such honest and straight-forward tierlist videos. They're helpful, and hard to come by.

The problem I have with switching email providers is that at this point, I have hundreds of individuals and companies that have my gmail account. Switch to another account is daunting. I still do have a yahoo account but it is for random sites that I highly suspect will collect my private information. I rarely even check it.

1. I stumbled upon your content, while searching for cyber-related stuff in audiovisual tierlist format. Gotta say- your content is truly an excellent mixture of educational and comprehensible. You and your art are appreciated. 2. I’d like to see you make a «RSS Feed Reader Tier List» 3. Could you create a playlist here, which includes your tierlists only?

I've been searching for this and then waiting for this from you for so long :D thanks! great tire list as always and thanks for rising awareness about how important privacy is online nowadays

On Disroot, giving your information to ideologue activists is just as bad an idea as giving it to anyone else, regardless of what side of the aisle you personally sit on. I've seen it repeatedly that someone falls out of lockstep once, and the cult will turn on them, and considering they don't encrypt anything, it's foolish, to me, to take that chance. As such, Mediocre Tier.

This video made AOL, Zoho and Yandex feel special. 😅 But you cant get them all. I remember using the likes of Netzero, Juno, Bluehost and Earthlink to name a few. Thanks for another great video.

Thanks for the thorough review. Bonus points for the Yahoo roasting at the end *sizzle*

Signed up for Skiff like a month ago. Willing to stay supporting it.

Very helpful video. I started becoming more aware of my privacy on the Internet thanks to your privacy centric videos. After being a long time user of Chrome and gmail, i finally switched to Firefox Hardened and Protonmail. Well actually, almost fully switched to Protonmail. I still use Gmail only for KZfaq 😅

Aaaaaaand it's gone (Skiff).

Skiff was sold to Notion.

37:00 Conclusion for you based boyos.

i will try skiff mail, thanks eric! you have obviously a great knowledge of the topic you talk about!

"Do you think AI is going to take over the world? Asking for a friend"

Host your own. Trust nobody. It's more work, but worth it.

Only real downside to Skiff mail is that it is based in the USA which is under all the 5 eyes 9 eyes and 14 eyes for government surveillance

Need an update to this. Skiff shuts down at the end of this month and Proton is implementing AI. I assume Tuta is the best on the market now but there are much fewer options here with 2 of the topped ranked choices going down.

wow dude, great work make more videos like this, I would to know more how I can be more private/secure on internet, its better than nothing. and not to be a product for such ads companies which uses all user data to give ads, train ai model, send it to government etc.

Gmail wants my phone#. Does Yahoo? Talking about privacy when it comes to email seems very moot. 99% of the people you email will probably use gmail, yahoo or msft. It takes 2 to be private.

skiff shut down lol

Definitely liked and Subscribed to this channel as currently researching De-Googling everything and your browser video and then your video list brought me to this one!!

"they use their own encryption" = they use encryption that has very little real world testing. "Cryptography is harder than it looks." - bruce schneier also.. if only receivers on their system can receive the so-called encrypted emails, what proof is there it was encrypted at all? Couldn't they just transport it plaintext, set some "decryptied" header text on the recipient and call it a day?

This is a great tier list. I don’t trust Proton and prefer Tutanota, but I totally get why Proton is the best for Grandma. Great video

Hotmail addresses in 2023 are a thing of beauty and noone can change my mind.

Me using outlook because my dad set up my 10 year old account:

I would be very interested in this, but for password managers, most notably I'd love to see how the proton and nord offerings stack up against the more established ones like bitwarden.

Interesting list - email is definitely one of these archaic technologies that we can't manage to shake off. Dumb take, but I can't remember the last time I wrote an email in my personal account. Realistically I only write academic/work-related emails from my organization's domain. I feel like, for most people, personal email is only really used for automated communications (stores, bills, banks, online services, etc). Given that these kind of communications contain a lot of private identifiable information (even more than chats in my opinion), it's a shame that email is becoming more and more centralized.

There are a few reasons why I dislike Skiff: >They are US based. Lavabit has shown us that every provider in the US will one day either have to cooperate with the authorities (without telling anyone) or shut down. >They are driven by VC money. Private organisations should be community driven and sustainable, like Disroot or Proton, because that way you can be sure they a) listen to the community and b) don't suddenly run out of money. 10GB of storage does not make me feel sustainable. >On Reddit and Twitter, Skiff has tried to throw a lot of shade at other providers, especially Proton, with false information.

The just learned about communism in university joke is killing me lamoooo

Posteo, paranoid, disroot, elude, riseup.

vpn tier list?

Phone companies tier list

I don't get why having less than a gigabyte for a privacy email is a deal breaker. If you're really concerned about privacy you shouldn't be using email and, if you do, download and encrypt everything you want preserved and delete everything else. That way, even if your email provider betrays you, they will have to dig through old backups.

Google reads my emails? Oh.... gross....

Awesome video Eric, I as a long time gmail user really appreciate all your knowledge on this.

I found this channel today and fell in love with it. thank you thank you

we need a messaging tier list (telegram, signal, etc)

>no cockmail

I really like those type of videos and earlier today i was asking myself if you made this exact video ro my surprise it just released

Greetings from Germany. I am not exactly a lawyer, but we are (legally and societially) that aware of privacy that operating Google the way it is done in the U.S. would be pretty much be a serious crime here.

what's the point in encrypted email if the recipient 999 times out of 1000 isn't?

yeah nice try FBI, LOL!

You need to setup SPF, DKIM, DMARC etc when you are hosting your own mail server if you dont want to end up inside the spam folders. It's not about google trusting you... its because those headers are missing.

My parents still use yahoo lol. My dad even had his Mozilla Firefox on my family computer set to yahoo as default, which made me think that Mozilla owned yahoo till I was like, a preteen.

Microsoft: We dont read your emails but we basically have access to everything you do on your computer lol

The problem is that completely switching emails is almost impossible

Huh, upon signing up for Skiff, I got 10 bucks in credit, neat!

"All Skiff services, including Mail, Pages, Calendar and Drive, will be sunsetting August 9, 2024, as part of Skiff's acquisition by Notion. Therefore you can no longer create new Skiff accounts. Please see more about the announcement here."

There is no such thing as private email. If you want privacy, just don't use email.

Email is so necessary now that we should really get an address with our ISP that isn't subject to data harvesting. Such a scam.

I literally JUST switched from Yahoo to Proton after watching Proton vids for the past hour or so. Thats crazy. 2011-2024 was a good run, RIP.

I got rid of my yahoo email address lol.

The thing is that most people use gmail and outlock if you going to email other people, these would read your email anyway

google is not matter of IF but matter of WHEN you loose your account expecialy if your someone who can loose their phone number out of the blue. i lost my legit minecraft becuase actions taken BOTH by GOOGLE AND Microsoft (google securty screwed me and wont let me access own acc even when give the security Q answer and microsoft for some reason as SOON as make an account [USER BANNED].

My fiancé still has a yahoo email. I’ve mentioned to her in the past about the security concerns and the terrible company that is Yahoo, and she just doesn’t care. I think she’ll still hold on to that email until Yahoo shuts down their service

You're my favorite channel.

I didn't even watch the video, but I trust your paranoia so I will check out the top choices. Thank you sir.

gmail is 10x better than outlook when it comes to filtering spam mails.

as an iCloud/MobileMe mail user, I see this as an absolute win.

I believe I'm late, but I think It's worthy to mention that Google made an april fools in 2016 that literally got people fired.

skiff was bought out by Notion 😂 you can’t even make an account anymore

There is no privacy when VC money are involved. 29:14

I worked as tech support for mail server providers for 9 years. The best practice is to host your own mail server and to make sure that your domain has the following 3 DNS records: 1. SPF 2. DKIM 3 DMARC If you have them configured correctly then major mail providers like Gmail or Yahoo should't have any reason to block your mails.

I got a Yahoo address in 1997. It became my spam box. I stopped using it in the mid 00's, continued sifting for about a year. After that I just auto deleted all mail and kept it for old stuff and then abandoned it. I could make my own email server, and I have done a small amount of that sort of thing professionally at one time. I'm entirely too lazy though. It's just way too much work. I'd put it on a list with changing my oil, cutting the grass, replacing bathroom fixtures... Things I could do but won't. I like using my own domains. I just use a box provided by the host. I have an intricate set of email forwarding addresses I use for anti-spam measures of my own design. I could set it up with Proton mail, which I also have. I kind of got halfway through evaluating Proton mail . I might use it at some point, particularly if I decide to use the other features. So little time, so much software to evaluate. Which is why I'm here of course. (thanks)

Skiff can encrypt emails using PGP sending to other email providers

Where is yandex? I am using yandex and consider it more secure than Proton because while I KNOW that it is getting spied on, I also know that anyone able to reach me will never be able to actually get a hold of my data

I don't mind paying for Protonmail. I want to support companies that provide good product - rather than *me* being the product.

So first you made a browser tier list where you completely excluded Safari, and now you decided to exclude iCloud mail which isn't even Mac/iOS exclusive. What exactly do you have against Apple? Out of all the tech giants, they're clearly the most privacy respecting.

Proton overall just feels good. You have one account for a ton of different things, may it be Mail, Calender or Password Manager. You can argue about the prices, but even the Free Plan is enough for most things you could want to do.

29:37 Oh dear...that Skiff hot take aged like milk 😅

back when Tuta had premium for 1 dollar/euro a month, That was 'the' best option for most casuals like me. Too bad they removed that and went up by 200% (3 euro a month).

Dr. Shiva has suggested that the US Postal Service should get into email because your privacy would be protected by the Constitution. Anyone who would read your email besides the person you sent it to would face a 22 year prison sentence, including anyone in government.

Hi Eric! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

Hey bro, can you do a Cloud Storage Tier list? OneDrive, Dropbox , Google Drive , Proton Drive , MEGA, Pcloud , Mediafire, Sync , StorJ , etc... (Thx)

0:53 _Maybe_ the person you're sending it to? :D Maximum privacy hack: hash your emails before sending them.

Skiff is new. New services always have good free tiers to drag you in. After a few years, they will cut down on the free tier and want your $$$. Same business plan.