<story><title>Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook</title><url>https://store.google.com/product/google_pixelbook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>busterarm</author><text>What was your gmail alternative?&lt;p&gt;I tried to switch everything to Lavabit, but then a month later the Snowden thing happened...that didn&amp;#x27;t last (and I&amp;#x27;m still out all that money)</text></item><item><author>notheguyouthink</author><text>Previously &lt;i&gt;everything&lt;/i&gt; of mine went through Google. Email, phone, phone number, search, etc. I&amp;#x27;ve migrated everything away (except Google Voice) for this very reason.&lt;p&gt;My life would have came to a grinding halt if they banned me, and I couldn&amp;#x27;t even email them about it.</text></item><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>I think a major issue is what happens if Google locks your account for some reason. There have been instances in the past where Google has locked the account of a user for some TOS violations.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.gadgets.ndtv.com&amp;#x2F;mobiles&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;google-pixel-resellers-see-their-google-accounts-locked-for-violating-terms-of-service-1626948&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.gadgets.ndtv.com&amp;#x2F;mobiles&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;google-pixel-reseller...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.washingtontimes.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;aug&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;jordan-b-petersons-youtube-account-locked-during-b&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.washingtontimes.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;aug&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;jordan-b-peters...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zerohedge.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017-08-21&amp;#x2F;one-statistics-professor-was-just-banned-google-here-his-story&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zerohedge.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017-08-21&amp;#x2F;one-statistics-prof...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Given that Google has a propensity to lock you out of your account completely if they suspect you violating TOS on any of their services, I would be very wary of this device. Do you want this computer and anything you created with it inaccessible because Google didn&amp;#x27;t like a video or blog post you made?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>morganvachon</author><text>I use Fastmail and absolutely love it. The interface is so much better than Gmail or anything else out there, and the additional services are awesome without being cumbersome. Their file storage isn&amp;#x27;t as easy to use as Google Drive, but it&amp;#x27;s fine for long-term storage of rarely accessed files, and you can even host simple web pages from your account.&lt;p&gt;The only downside I&amp;#x27;ve found is you have to pay the full fee for each @fastmail.com account, though I get around that by hosting my other email addresses on my own VPS and using Fastmail as my IMAP client for them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook</title><url>https://store.google.com/product/google_pixelbook</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>busterarm</author><text>What was your gmail alternative?&lt;p&gt;I tried to switch everything to Lavabit, but then a month later the Snowden thing happened...that didn&amp;#x27;t last (and I&amp;#x27;m still out all that money)</text></item><item><author>notheguyouthink</author><text>Previously &lt;i&gt;everything&lt;/i&gt; of mine went through Google. Email, phone, phone number, search, etc. I&amp;#x27;ve migrated everything away (except Google Voice) for this very reason.&lt;p&gt;My life would have came to a grinding halt if they banned me, and I couldn&amp;#x27;t even email them about it.</text></item><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>I think a major issue is what happens if Google locks your account for some reason. There have been instances in the past where Google has locked the account of a user for some TOS violations.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.gadgets.ndtv.com&amp;#x2F;mobiles&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;google-pixel-resellers-see-their-google-accounts-locked-for-violating-terms-of-service-1626948&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.gadgets.ndtv.com&amp;#x2F;mobiles&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;google-pixel-reseller...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.washingtontimes.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;aug&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;jordan-b-petersons-youtube-account-locked-during-b&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.washingtontimes.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;aug&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;jordan-b-peters...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zerohedge.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017-08-21&amp;#x2F;one-statistics-professor-was-just-banned-google-here-his-story&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.zerohedge.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2017-08-21&amp;#x2F;one-statistics-prof...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Given that Google has a propensity to lock you out of your account completely if they suspect you violating TOS on any of their services, I would be very wary of this device. Do you want this computer and anything you created with it inaccessible because Google didn&amp;#x27;t like a video or blog post you made?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notheguyouthink</author><text>I switched to Fastmail. Note that my main concern was being banned by Google, so security&amp;#x2F;privacy wasn&amp;#x27;t my focus. I say that because I believe Fastmail is still in the US[1], which brings up privacy concerns imo.&lt;p&gt;Recently on HN I saw another email provider that offered fully encrypted email, perhaps end to end, but I&amp;#x27;ve already committed to Fastmail so I didn&amp;#x27;t follow up with them too much.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m happy with Fastmail fwiw, and happily support them.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.fastmail.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;fastmails-servers-are-in-the-us-what-this-means-for-you&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.fastmail.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;10&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;fastmails-servers-are-i...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>