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I am privacy conscious so I would like to use my proton.me account, but I wanted some advice. Should I use my gmail account for career related purposes or should a proton.me address be fine?

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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I expect to learn that Google has been selling a "sentiment analysis" (measure of desperation) to potential employers, based on the contents on my Gmail inbox during my job search.

So I no longer allow anything financial to go through Gmail.

Source: just my suspicion, since it would compliment health and health insurance privacy horrors (MIB) and financial privacy invasions (credit scores, Equifax).

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

It doesn't matter too much, just make sure it's professional and not something like rabbitfucker@gmail. You could also just make an address specifically for interviews or whatever.

[–] Fal@yiffit.net -1 points 7 months ago

Is the proton.me a professional sounding name like your real name? or is it xxbussydestroyerxx or something?