Email providers

Your typical botnet-infested mail provider.

In today's privacy lax tech landscape, even mail providers run by the world's biggest corporations are a hair's breath away from being compromised. Although no major breaches of mail servers have been internationally publicized within the last few years, events like "the fappening" serve as a strong reminder that for every dollar spent by apple on making their botnet confirmed phones, tablets and personal computers look like high end sex toys, about nary a cent is spent on making sure your data is secure. There are however many service providers who are actually committed to keeping your precious data unseen by those who were uninvited to see it.

Desirable Traits

When searching for mail service providers there are always a few key signs that the service should be used or avoided

The Good

• Open Source

Now before you righteously shout at the top of your lungs "hurr durr Freetard detected winders is the best" think about it. If a mail service uses Open Source software it is possible for anyone to review said software for backdoors and bugs that could be potentially be exploited to steal your data or disrupt your workflow (simple stuff but some /g/its don't quite understand). If the software is well maintained problems will either be quickly dealt with or not arise at all.

• Physically Secure

There isn't much point of having a service that is impossible to hack into if some random guy can just walk in and take your data. Although most service providers wouldn't be that stupid, there are some that probably aren't far off. Good places to have a mail server are: decommissioned bunkers, secret locations (probably behind seven proxies) or spread out over many different machines in different locations.

• Not for profit/Independent

They say every bloke has his price, well there is no arena where that statement rings more true than in big business where back room deals are a way of life and morality and personal convictions come second to profit. You're much safer putting your precious data in the hands of some sweaty neckbeard, who does nothing but watch Alex Jones and talk about racemixing on /pol/, with a mission to "stap the gummmerment takin' our freedumbs", than some corporation who'd sell you out in an instant for a few bucks.

• Made by a fellow Autist

If your mail provider was set up by a fellow /g/ent, /tech/ie or /cyber/cunt, you know that their hatred for governments and corporate entities burns deeper than the bed sores they more than likely posses, and wouldn't sell your data even if the NSA was knocking on their door.

• Anonymous

A mail provider who doesn't require your details to register an account is a mail provider who can't sell out your account for sum quik bux should someone come asking for your data specifically. This includes not requiring your name, previous email, phone number or a link to one of your social media accounts.

The Bad

• Based in a police state

You know your data isn't safe if literally any government official or ally can simply ask to see your details and every message you've sent since record began. This means that providers based in the USA, China, Australia or any other authority cuck(tm) nations aren't a good choice if you're a whistle blower, plan to run for office, be dissentious (basically every chan user except for the most patriotic /pol/tard) or try to obtain a position of power in general. Countries like France, Germany, Sweden and perhaps Japan are safe bets.

• Associated with known pedophile networks

If your mail provider is associated at all with the less scrupulous man-child side of the internet, there is a chance that your data is already being watched.

• You saw it in an advertisement/A REEEEEEEE worthy Normie recommended it to you

This one goes without saying, spam is usually quite profitable, and spreading it to others increases this profit. If you see an ad saying "Other providers hate him. Find out how he sends emails the fastest, with one dirty trick" nope the fuck out of there immediately.

Recommended providers

See also: Privacy-Conscious Email Providers

1. Mailoo. An open source, anonymous sign-up French email provider. No corps or big gmmmerments in sight. Huge 1Gb attachment size.

2. Posteo A German email provider with Ganoo compliant JavaScript (not sure about anything else though). Has features designed to keep you anonymous and your data private such as encryption and anonymous sign-up. Requires 1 euro buck a month and runs on sustainable green technology.

3. cock.li It's mail but with cocks. It's run by a /tech/ie dedicated to anonymity and used by 8chan's administrator. However It's American, associated with pedo networks such as 8chan and entirely unsuitable for professional use, with domain names ranging from @dicksinmyan.us to @420blaze.it to @8chan.co.

4. OpenMailBox French, Open Source and Encrypted this provider also features Anti-Spam and Antivirus capabilities and you'll even have your IP stripped from the logs. It requires your name but, you could potentially fake it

5. ProtonMail Designed by some lads at MIT, maintained by CERN in an abandoned military command center deep within the Swiss alps, featuring end to end encryption, expiring emails, a dogged dedication to absolute privacy from any third party and complete anonymity including scrubbing IP addresses and dissociating them with your user name, this is the email provider to end all email providers.

6. Teknik.io Free email to every user. Requires no personal information to sign up, fast, and no IP logging. Includes a web client, and can be used in any POP3 or IMAP compatible client.

7. Tutanota German-based email service which is open-source, with a built-in end-to-end encryption, it doesn't require any personal information.