

If you want more storage, there are a number of premium plans you can choose, for up to 50GB of storage. It was founded in Switzerland by a small team in 2013. It’s end-to-end encrypted and it’s client-side encrypted so the service provider isn’t privy to the encryption key. ProtonMail is one that people name a lot when thinking about secure email. As Oath told the WSJ today, email can be an expensive system, and Yahoo’s tradeoff is all that space in exchange for your data. (Gmail, on the other hand, has a limit of 15GB unless you pay for more.) Granted, Yahoo’s massive storage space is self-admittedly used for storing consumer emails, so maybe after cutting down on retail spam, you won’t need that much space. You will find that none of them have as much storage as Yahoo Mail’s whopping 1TB of free storage space. So what are some alternative email providers that offer more security and privacy? You’ve got the obvious choices of Gmail or Microsoft Outlook, but there are several lesser known choices that might be worth a try. Yahoo admitted in 2017 that all 3 billion of its accounts have been breached before, years after the breach occurred. Yahoo Mail once suffered a comprehensive data breachīut even after you’ve opted out, Yahoo Mail still isn’t the best choice for a mail app. And even if you’re a premium Yahoo Mail user, you’ll need to opt out manually to prevent your data from being sent to advertisers.Īfter you opt out, characteristics like your age bracket and your gender show up as hidden to Yahoo.
If you simply click on the blue opt out button once, Yahoo will still be scanning your email and sorting you by qualities to fit a profile it can send to advertisers. This one “disables personalization based on your interests” across Yahoo’s own properties.
