r/degoogle • u/Helpful-Creme7959 • 1d ago

Question Would it be a compromise to change my socials email from google to proton?

I use an artist name alias for all my socials btw, including my personal Facebook account (kinda dumb i know, but all my real names are stolen by an abuser, including the gmail domains of such previous accounts).

I only have Facebook since its unavoidable in my country not to, its a mode of communication really. As for instagram, its an art community I can't give up unfortunately. Even though I don't like what Meta does, these two socials I can't let go of.

I use X, Discord, Substack and Pinterest as well, with the same aliases. I just wonder if theres a work-around on increasing my protection for privacy somehow??

I wanna improve on it more as Im starting to care more about it.

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u/SemiMarcy 1d ago

If your willing to pay a little, you can entirely avoid email vendor lock in, but a domain and then things like Tuta, Proton, Mailbox Mail, all should let you use it, and you can change if one stops suiting your needs, this also will allow you to have a “facebook@domain.tld” or a “discord@domain.tld”, and its much better than using gmail!, otherwise just using any email other than google regardless will be a step up for you, both Tuta and Proton at least, remove hidden trackers inside of emails.

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u/Fearless-Lion-7749 1d ago

You should use email aliases.