I’ve moved almost completely to Proton Mail. I expect I’ll end up keeping a Google or Outlook account, not for use as a primary account, but as a recovery account or to access other services.
I currently see a lot less value in the google account than outlook, but that’s because my family does need access to full blown office. Libre office does 98% of what I need, but on occasion I do need office. An install of 2010 would probably meet that requirement as well. Firefox is set to delete cookies on exit, and I do not ever stay signed into these services.
Does anyone else keep free service email accounts around, and if so, what do you use them for? What’s the pit-fall I’m not seeing if I try to restrict them and treat them with the Principle of Least Privileged model?
Youtube is powerful, halp
Do you need an email for it? I thought you could still use it without being logged in.
But your recommendations don’t sync between devices
Ahh, got it. That’s a feature I never used.
RSS feeds are what set me free, and they’re actually much more reliable, YouTube can’t seem to create working subscription notifications.
You can create a rss feed for a youtuber ?
Yes. Just go to their channel page, right click, view page source. Search the source code for channelid=(long string of letters and numbers)
Put this into your feed reader: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=(long string of letters and numbers)
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/feeds/videos
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.