Plain-language guides to private email — encrypted providers, email aliases, and what really matters when your inbox isn't a data product.
If you're setting up a new email account, should you use yourname@protonmail.com or yourname@yourdomain.com? Here's the honest tradeoff and how to choose.
Encrypted email isn't for everyone. Here's how to figure out whether switching is worth it — without paranoia or marketing fluff.
Email alias services let you create unlimited throwaway addresses that forward to your real inbox. Here's how AnonAddy, SimpleLogin, and Firefox Relay stack up on privacy, features, and price.
End-to-end encryption protects message bodies, not the envelope. Here's exactly what metadata leaks from encrypted email and what you can do about it.
A practical migration plan for moving away from Gmail to Proton Mail or Tutanota: importing history, forwarding contacts, handling 2FA recovery, and what breaks.
Proton Mail and Tutanota are the two serious end-to-end encrypted email providers. They make different tradeoffs on metadata, ecosystem, and pricing. Here's how to pick.
Your email address is a tracking identifier. Here's the plain-language version of how data brokers get it, what they do with it, and how to start cutting off the supply.