Top 5 BEST Email Providers for Privacy, Security, & Anonymity

[Music] email is inherently one of the most insecure means of communication we have today however there are ways to use email in more private and secure methods despite these concerns today we're going to cover five of the best services that value your privacy and security so you can communicate with everyone you know a little bit safer a disclaimer some options on this list will protect and encrypt your emails to external contacts who don't use pgp which is fantastic but others don't we will highlight which do what another disclaimer we did our best to put together options based around privacy and security practices not necessarily usability which is a pretty important distinction to make and screw it most of this list came from price tools ao we added our own flair to things and condensed the information down to you service 5 is sovereign a paid option based out of amsterdam advertising to not advertise to you or abuse your user data they offer private signups to their users accepting traditional payment methods but also bitcoin to make private payment easy they allow custom domains and sub addressing with integrated encryption in their webmail simplifying sending messages to users another neat feature they offer is a free personal webpage that comes with your subscription lastly they support two-factor authentication but so does every service on this list so this is the last you'll hear about it sovereign does have issues it's not open source which is discouraging and there are no mobile apps it encrypts data at rest but it's not zero access so theoretically it's possible for them to access this data contacts and calendar are also not end and encrypted for tour users there's there's no onion service in summary it's not a bad option you're going to be better off with sovereign than with something more traditional but unless there's some specific reason you trust or need a feature they offer most other services on this list will probably perform better for you the number four service on our list is mailbox.org a german provider advertising itself as ad-free and running on 100 eco-friendly energy for the record every service on this list is ad-free there's no free option but the pricing is ridiculously cheap at just about a buck a month mailbox supports custom domains catch all addresses and sub addressing there is no cryptocurrency option but they accept cash by mail as well as traditional payment methods mailbox allows for encryption of incoming and external mail using their encrypted guard mailbox which attempts to simplify open pgp encryption they allow external users to decrypt an email through mailbox which is nice for users who do not have or use openpgp which is a big concern mailbox supports discovery of public keys through http through wkd meaning users outside of mailbox.org can find the open pgp keys of users easily for end-to-end encryption they also offer limited cloud storage with your account as for cons most of the service is not open source they don't allow the webmail interface through their onion service and they do not encrypt your contacts and calendar as a whole this is a decent cheap option for users looking for a robust provider but again there are issues our third on the list is another german service tudonota is one of the most popular open source email clients also using 100 renewable energy the most attractive thing about tutanota is the generous free option but outside of that they implement some great security practices there's zero access encryption at rest with emails contacts and calendars to denote is open source with their app being on f droid for those wanting a fast android experience check out some of the other apps that we've looked at they encrypt emails for external users so people not using the service will need a password to view the contents of the email this is a major misconception about this service as well as the next service we'll cover as external users do benefit from the encryption you can also use up to five aliases and custom domains some cons to the noda is currently limited to its webmail and applications with no supports for external apps they do not use pgp so users can only receive encrypted emails when external users send them through a temporary to donota inbox to improve this issue it's on their radar to implement autocrypt support they only accept credit cards and paypal if you're going with a paid plan which will add some difficulty in obtaining the account privately they also do not operate an onion site but are considering it with a free plan 2dnoda would really have zero information about you and it implements fantastic open source security with the option to encrypt emails to external contacts and its main limitations seem to be on their radar to fix over time which is exciting for their future so let's keep an eye onto the node and hope that they keep things going up service number two is the beyond popular protonmail they're based out of switzerland with a generous free plan which like tutanota makes it beyond simple to create a private account with no personal information which is great for pseudonyms the rest of this analysis will assume you're using paid protonmail but free includes the same general privacy and security functionality just not the extra features protonmail allows custom domains catch-all addresses and sub-addressing all with the ability to use external email clients with protonmail bridge they accept bitcoin as well as traditional payment methods making it possible to sign up for a paid account pretty privately their data encryption is pretty simple zero access encryption at rest for your emails contacts and calendars for their email encryption they have integrated openpgp messages to other protonmail users are automatically encrypted and encryption to non-proton mail users with open pgp can be enabled but by default it's just going to be a standard email however like 2d noda and the mailbox protonmail offers a simple way to encrypt messages to external users without the need for them to use open pgp but rather a password requirement in the email i've always loved this especially since it's self-destructing after a set amount of time proton allows public key discovery through wkd for end-to-end encryption and they offer a fully fledged onion service the only one on the list to do that outside of protonmail this can also be integrated with proton vpn a proton calendar and likely more in the future whatever protons gonna do like proton drive whenever that's gonna come out oh and everything they do is open source including their apps and they're the only service on this list that has been audited the main con to protonmail is honestly probably the price it's pricey if you go with one of the more robust options but they do offer a free plan which makes this a bit more acceptable um if it works for you i use the free plan for my personal life and it works for me so protons really hard to beat since there's not really that much to complain about so how are they not number one well they kind of are for something that's simple at least the number one option which i warn you won't be good for most of you is gmail just just kidding it's to self-host your own email you're going to lose a lot of the nifty features and the easy experience the other providers offer you're gonna have to put some time effort and money into getting it set up and if you misconfigure anything it could be disastrous for your securities it sounds pretty terrible um however there's no other way to pretty much guarantee you own your data privacy and security better than if you did it yourself this is not simple and many would recommend against it including myself but it's hard to deny that if you want the max peace of mind and if you have the technical knowledge to do so it's a great option if this is the path you want to head a good place to start is reading up on mail in the box and mail cal i'll also leave a couple more in-depth sources on how to get this all set up in a description if you're asking how to do it you likely shouldn't and you should look at other services on this list unless there is a learning experience involved and you're not planning on using this as your main email provider that my friends was our top 5 email recommendations we highly recommend moving to one of these options to avoid things like gmail and other common providers that are analyzing everything you type and send without the best possible security in mind take control of the way you communicate and there's really no excuse as two options on this list have generous free plans and another only cost a buck a month so come on don't sell out people if you're looking to move to a new email provider make sure to subscribe as it's on our radar to one day walk you through the entire process of transitioning to a new email as it can be a very lengthy process if you want the basics i alluded to the process quite a bit in our video going through how to delete google so check that out for more information if you like this video and want to support our work give it a like below and go check out our patreon to directly support what we do lastly what is your favorite email provider what do you use leave it below we're only going to use that information to break into your accounts thanks for watching everybody and have a great day and for those who want to see it yeah there it is [Music]

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Length: 8min 33sec (513 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 23 2020