Here’s an example: When Google locks you out of your account, begging the internet for help is your first (and last) resort.

There have been stories about arbitrary account closures, especially from Google, who’s support service seems spotty at best. Not to mention that we also depend on domain names given by the service provider, , etc.), which means that if the account is closed for any reason, it can be hard to recoup the loss and change our address on all services that uses it (unless you have all services documented somewhere, like in a password manager). Usually, losing an account is not the end of the world, but email is so central to all of our digital lives that losing access can spell disaster on the affected users. However, as it usually goes for using any service on the internet, accounts on these platforms are at risk of being deactivated for any number of reasons, even from non-intentional reasons such as accidents from the providers themselves.

Using a major provider has great points for convenience and monetary costs (i.e: none) as well as no management requirements.

This space is largely controlled by a few major service providers such as Gmail (from Google) and Outlook (from Microsoft). Today, most would say that email is an integral part of our lives, and can be considered an essential service. If you want to skip ahead to the guide (i.e: you already made the decision to switch and only want to know how), you can go to the next section.

Protonmail use own domain