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Are private email providers worth it? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I think I know the answer, bit maybe I'm missing something

Since proton only sends and receives encrypted emails to other proton accounts, that means that when you get or send an email to someone else, they have to send / receive unencrypted and there is no way for us to verify what they are doing. Right?

Also if most accounts are google Microsoft, they still get 90% of my emails. By switching to proton I think I've gained nothing, while losing convenience , added another trust point, and having two different companies have my data instead of just one

Proton drive, calendar and VPN I think are fine

Sorry for the poor syntax. I'm at work working on email related things, and this topic kept distracting me. I might correct it later

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[–] [S] -1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That sounds like the worst option of all. At least I can trust google has some protections in place to stop employees from looking at you email, because if they didn't there would be thousands of cases all the time.

In your case, you never know who is looking. At any point a rogue admin can issue a bank password reset and just read the email

I've never heard of the term web hotel before. I'm guessing its web hosting

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 1 year ago

    Of course. But you didn't switch to a trustless provider. You switch to a nobody that has nothing to lose by reading you email. Also my point is that google has programs reading every email, but not people. They probably have a lot of locks to stop employees form accessing users email

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sounds like you don't know what you are talking about. :-) That's fine, but unless you know something about the topic, you shouldn't really be judging...

    I know exactly who is looking. And I would also know if anyone tampers with the passwords. I guess you don't have the skills, and that's fine. You might even think that there's anything in the world that is totally secure. There's not a single thing that is secure.

    Oh, what is this? - https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/08/25/google-warns-most-gmail-users-must-change-passwords/

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