How losing my email account locked me out of my Digital Life

A few weeks ago, I lost access to my email account. That experience opened my eyes to just how much I depended on it and how expensive a “free” service can become when things go wrong. This is a post-mortem of what happened and what I learned. This post is NOT sponsored This post is not sponsored or paid by Proton. I am just writing about what happen to me and the steps I took. I decided to switch…