100%, like you said, email isn’t really made for private communications. Even with me calling it out as not private, I do use fastmail as my main provider and like it.

It’s great except it’s hosted in Australia. Not really privacy focused.

I don’t trust NordVPN. There was a lot of shady behavior by that company.

E.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/wnpmln/i_think_nordvpn_is_creating_fake_accounts_and/

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