Just right now I was scrolling Mastodon and found this:
https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/114212145340449828
Albeit on a different occasion:
Hungary is out, the EU moves forward. European leaders no longer wait for Orbán’s approval on Ukraine. The latest EU statement will be issued by 26 nations—Hungary isolated. Diplomats say if Orbán wants to go it alone, no one will stop him.
There seems to be some wiggle room.
Unfortunately, EU can’t kick out contries that go completely against EU values.
Yes, all these email services want you to pay up for them. I think this is the price tag for privacy.
I have switched to Mailbox org a couple of years ago. I had a freemail provider before that. Unfortunately, this providers’ data got leaked, and therefore I got pwned, luckily only resulting into a tsunami of spam. The entry-tier with Mailbox is 1 € per month (= 12 € per year) which is compareably cheap in my opinion. Of course, it depends on what features you desire - more features cost more money. They also offer a free trial for 30 days (but it is wise to start the free trial at the begin of a month, as far as I recall).
The process of switching the email provider took me at least 6 months, where both the old and the new email adress have to exist simulatiously.
If you need to register quickly to an online service, i can recommend Temp-Mail org. Its free, but you need to have the tab opened for the registration process, as all data (including the free temporary email adress) will be deleted once the tab is closed. I used this service to register with my home instance, because back then I didn’t want to expose my real email adress.
Sounds like this guy, who did something similar. He was convicted in 2015 to a life in prison. It went all over the news back then.
Other than having a quiet shift, he wanted to put himself into the role of the hero who safed the patients, as far as I recall. In order to do this, he manipulated the patients’ medication and thus, a medical emergency was provoked, where he steps in and saves the patients’ life. But it went wrong oftentimes and the patients died. That’s how they got onto him.
It’s basically the Chatkontrolle (Chat Control - wiretapping into ones communications under the guise of child protection and terrorism), that was prevented successfully so far, but with a different name. This ist just another attempt to introduce mass surveillance.