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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 point 1 year ago (1 child)

i don't care about their VPN. the issue you describe is very real, but it's inherit to all vpn providers. what i care right now, is their email service. you can switch vpn providers in less than 15 minutes, but email takes days. so i wouldn't want to go around doing all of that every time some employee says something stupid.

and btw, if you use native installed apps, then the worry of them serving malicious javascript goes way down because any change they make on the complied package would be very likely to be very obvios to someone, because its open source ( i won't go into detail here).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah, I feel you about not wanting to move your email. Email is inherently insecure. My only real problem with their email is that they give people and false sense of security that their email is secure. It's only secure as long as it's on their network and it's not like it's end-to-end. If i remember correctly, their back-end email server is one of the things that's not open.

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