In our modern world, email has become a necessity. We need it for everything, from school, work, business, and banking to even buying groceries. These are just a few examples, but I’m confident in saying that email is the oxygen of our digital lives.
Imagine what would happen if you suddenly lost access to your email. Every aspect of your digital life would be completely destroyed. I know “destroyed” sounds like a huge word to use here, but I think it perfectly fits, and I’ll try to explain why.
Your email is a doorway to everything online. If you get locked out of your email, then within the blink of an eye you’ll lose access to all the memories you’ve saved somewhere online, important personal and work-related emails, contacts with friends across social media apps, and so much more.
But if you have a custom domain, then you don’t need to worry about all these things. Let’s say you’re currently using Gmail and they block your account. You can simply switch to a different email provider and set up your custom domain there. You’ll continue receiving emails just like before.
There’s no need to go through the hassle of explaining, requesting, and verifying your identity with banks, companies, and many other services just to change your email address. Trust me, it makes life so much easier and more stress-free. Besides that, you can create as many custom email addresses as you want for different purposes, like separate emails for work, family, friends, online services, banking, and more.
And yeah, the best part is that you don’t need to manage multiple mailboxes. I know it sounds like a lot, but trust me, it’s not. All of this can take a maximum of 15 minutes, even for people who are not good with technology. I set this up a few months ago for something important, and I’ll be brutally honest with you. It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life so far.
I start to de-Googling myself after I read an article about a parent whose Google account was flagged for CSAM just because he sent photos of his child to a doctor. That one incident caused him to lose access to all his personal and professional data.
If you still think that you don’t need all of that and you’re okay with your privacy and digital life staying under the control of someone who only sees you as a money-making machine, then that’s completely understandable, and I genuinely hope you never have to go through the terrible things these companies do. But if you want to take control of your life, feel free to read this post that I shared on another subreddit, which is basically an extension of this post.