There’s no free email if you want privacy. I’d highly recommend Fastmail though. It’s a lean and obviously fast email service that’s really cheap. You can also use your own domains included and have all those emails/domains go to the same inbox and choose which one to respond to. In my case, I have name.tld, fullname.tld, and a few project sites. All those domains have their “own” email addresses but ultimately they all are in my inbox and I can respond from all my services from there. They also offer masked email addresses like randomword-word@fastmail.com that acts as if it was your email address. If your email is ever stolen or beached, you’ll know where it came from! Also prevents tracking and building profiles on you. They offer like 5+ year plans for super cheap.

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