Gmail offers fully encrypted email. But better alternatives exist

Your email isn’t as private as you might assume—and you should look outside Google if you want to change that.

Why can’t your email be as secure as your texts?

End-to-end encrypting your email is complicated, but not impossible. You'll want to ditch the big platforms for these alternatives.
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