they have to make money somehow.

I was a paying costumer.

disroot

Tuta will show you ads in your mailbox, don’t fall for it.

They show you ads as a premium user and spam your inbox with “news” that’s just poorly disguised upsell attempts.

Represent

Tuta are also enshittifying.

Buying your own domain and pointing its DNS at your email provider. The email provider is still your host, but you get to use maroon@yourdomain.tld everywhere and you can seamlessly switch providers. I’ve done it a few times, now.

It’s not legal