Get your own domain so you can easily change providers in the future. Start with your password manager and change the address on all the accounts you have in there.

After a few years you'll notice you stop bothering to check your Gmail and you can delete it to close the address.

If you need motivation, skim the /r/GMail subreddit and see how many people are getting locked out daily.

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8cvor6j844qw_d6 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you have a recommendation for a major email provider as a fallback if you have to pick one?

I vaguely recall encountering a service that only accepted addresses from a whitelist of big providers (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, etc.), even @icloud did not qualify.

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JoshTriplett 3 hours ago | parent [-]

That's a service that doesn't want your business. If you care, message them about it

I've never once run into a service with such a restriction, but I can imagine someone being that short-sighted. I have seen services that only support "log in with Google or Facebook", which is comparably terrible.

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genxy 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Discogs will not let me login with my own domain (of 30 years) and required one of the big providers. It kept complaining about "risky domain". But that is the only incident I can think of.

	▲	CamperBob2 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Discogs Who? Never heard of them, and it sounds like there's a good reason for that.

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sir0010010 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've run into services that will flag specific tlds as invalid.