Go for it. It's surprisingly easy, relatively inexpensive and gives you way more control.

Well proven strategy, to the point where most providers explicitly allow it (might even be a decider). But don't trust me (genuinely), Moar research! (please)).

Well, that sucks. Guess you must hate the people who reject you. What domain? yy?

You need to build up reputation before you can beat spam filters. This happens all the time to new domains. Make sure to have Dmarc and Dkim configured.

BRILLIANT

Well... it has advantages, for sure. Also drawbacks. A custom domain, that ties together all your separate email addresses.

There are let's say 16 addresses on mysuperbestnumberonemail dot com. One used at a bank, one on a shopping site, 4 on a social media site, and one each at some utilities. Those are the ONLY uses of that domain for email in the whole world.

Where if it's a domain millions of others use, then addresses are harder to pinpoint down to one person.

That might matter to someone. Or it might not. Depends on what you care about. Just something to be aware of. A custom domain is a huge fingerprinting signal.

I used tuta for a long time ans never had any issues. I recently switched only because I wanted to be able to send emails from my self hosted services ans they don't support anything but they're own clients. If that's not a problem for you the tuta is a great option.

There is absolutely no evidence for it. He went to lobby in DC, and apparently, some GOP folks had time for him but Dems didn't. Could have been the opposite on different day based on several factors.

Then recently, the marketing firm they hired put a sponsorship on a far right guy's video. They accepted full accountability for the mistake and said they would change procedures to get those being sponsored vetted appropriately.

Neither one of these are evidence of being MAGA. You can personally lobby in DC and find an individual of an opposite party who might have interest in your message. Just because Grainger played a commercial during satanic music videos doesn't mean they are Dimmu Borgir fans. It just means people who listen to metal need tools too.

They guy might be a fascist dick for all I know. I'm just saying that the situations above do not indicate that it is the case. In fact, fascists typically never admit fault or accept accountability for anything. The only concern for me is that he was lobbying in the US at all, but that is the only way you can get your case heard sometimes if you need politicians to hear a different side of an argument.

Is that the whole thing? Genuinely asking.

Is it funny?
By a sizeable margin they're the largest and most popular in the space. At the same time, that makes them the biggest target and most watched.

Someone even mentioned a possible smear campaign by Google. While there's no evidence at all of that, they would be the most obvious target.

So it's not really funny or odd in any way. It's kind of obvious really.