I'm Leaving
Gmail
Fifteen years of my correspondence, read by an advertising machine. Here is the door — and here is what waits on the other side.
Gmail is not a mail client. It is a surveillance surface with an inbox attached — free because of me, and every sentence I write, is the product.
They Read My Room
Message contents, metadata and my contact graph feed ad targeting and model training across Google's entire estate. I came to see the inbox as a sensor, and I stopped wanting one in the home.
One Login, Every Door
A single account gates Search, Docs, Photos, Android and Pay. One suspension and my whole digital life closes at once, and I am no longer willing to keep that much in one basket.
Leaving Was Made Hard
Export is deliberately partial. Labels, filters and threading rarely survive the trip, and the friction I met on the way out is what convinced me to finish leaving.
Proton Mail
Swiss-based and end-to-end encrypted by default. Your inbox is a locked room even Proton cannot enter — and Easy Switch pulls your Gmail archive across in one pass.
Tuta
German encrypted mail with a fully open-source client and a green-power promise. Calendar and contacts are encrypted alongside the inbox, so nothing leaks out the side.
