Protonmail is also an alternative, but that one requires you to have another email address iirc.
Both of these are European.
Be aware that if you use an email for personal business, like buying stuff online, your email address will be connected to your identity indirectly regardless. So it depends on what you are going to use it for. It might be that it won’t matter (in your case) that the address is linked to your identity through the phone number if you are already linking it to yourself in other ways.
Requires a phone number. If you live in an EU country, that phone number will be connected to your real identity due to recent laws in the EU forcing telephone companies to identify their customers. An “Infomaniak” email will most likely be connected to the user’s real identity.
From their website:
The free offer is available in the following countries: Suisse, France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Allemagne, Italie, Autriche, Espagne, Portugal, Monaco, Australie, Canada, Chili, Corée du Sud, Danemark, Estonie, États-Unis, Finlande, Grèce, Hongrie, Irlande, Islande, Israël, Japon, Lettonie, Lituanie, Mexique, Norvège, Nouvelle-Zélande, Pays-Bas, Pologne, République slovaque, République tchèque, Royaume-Uni, Slovénie, Suède, Turquie.
A telephone number corresponding to the country is required.
Although that would be a win, European alternatives are not much better in terms of privacy. If that’s something you’re looking forward to.
Pretty much all methods of online payment require you to give away your identity in the name of fighting “money laundering” and terrorism (Israel doesn’t count). You have a system where the government is constantly trying to reach its tentacles into everything that has to do with finance. The current European payment services are an important part in facilitating that control. A new European debit/credit card is not going to change that.
There are always going to be bad men trying to commit aggression, so one should be grateful that there are other men who counter that.
If you want to turn this into a man-problem, then why stop there? You might as well turn this into a human-problem. Turning this into a gender issue rather than focusing on the bad people specifically, is an arbitrary (and toxic) way of framing the issue.
Yes, women need men. Who is primarily fighting in Ukraine? Who was forced to stay and who was allowed to leave? Answer: The men had to stay to fight while women and children were allowed to evacuate the country.
Defense is just one example of what men do for women.
Making the blanket statement that anyone who believes male loneliness is an issue that in parts is outside of their control, is a clown, has nothing to do with introspection. It’s a rude, unemphatic, misandric statement that has no constructive properties.
Hopefully they will find better jobs with better employers.
For everyone who uses Windows, try Linux. You don’t know what you’re missing out on until you try it. See the ranking on the right hand side here: https://distrowatch.com/ You can pick something from there on the top of the list.
Watch YouTube to learn more about each Linux distro that you find interesting.
I personally would recommend Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based distros, as they have the widest support.
You don’t have to wipe your Windows-installation completely, instead dual-boot. If you feel comfortable switching entirely, you can wipe out Windows and keep Linux exclusively.
Imagine calling a house a pod.