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Video Timestamps
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0:00 - Email as your Identity
0:42 - How Google controls your identity online
1:24 - Alternative to Google
2:24 - Why Escape from Google services?
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Andy Yen, privacy advocate and CEO of Proton Privacy, explains how our email acts as our ID online, and the implications of Google's control over that identity. There are alternatives available, but you have to be willing to escape from the clutches of Google and trying something different.

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