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[–] 393 points 1 week ago (42 children)

It will be impossible to trust this company again until Yen and the rest of the C-suite resign.

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  • [–] 66 points 1 week ago (37 children)

    I'm slowly trying to degoogle. Mail is a big concern for me. I have a google business account to handle a few domains. I used a small shared host before and it was crap. Every couple months they'd make some change and all my shit broke. I switched to Google because I knew it would be reliable and largely set and forget. It's been that. I hate Google though. So if not proton, then who?

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  • [–] 77 points 1 week ago (11 children)

    I think Tuta and mailbox.org are generally recommended, but I use Posteo which has been fine

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Tuta is not everyones fave right now, look at my history for details...I havent followed up on everything yet but I thought the same as you.

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    Tuta uses walled garden closed source apps. Posteo does not support custom domains unless you do something like addy.io. Mailbox.org does encryption at rest but your client needs to support pgp to use it. They all have their drawbacks.

    Personally I’ve started to move from proton to mailbox.org with addy.io for custom domains and aliases. Once it’s solid I’m moving addy.io to self hosted

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The important part is to not put all of your eggs in one basket. This makes it so you can migrate off of one at a time rather than your entire life at once.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Ye, I'm finding that with Google. You don't realize how tightly locked in you are until you try to leave.

    A counterpoint though, is that putting 12 eggs into different baskets means having to manage 12 baskets. It's a trade off

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  • [–] 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Try Fastmail, you will be impressed

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    After using Tuta for a year and not really enjoying the experience I surveyed the landscape and picked Fastmail. I adore it.

    It being in a five eyes country will certainly earn it some strikes against it among the privacy crowd, however.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Email is inherently unsafe. Privacy advocates know this. But we all still need it for managing accounts and such.

    Any provider just reliably "doing email" and not actively harming its users in some way is going to look pretty good to most of us.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Email is something we simply cannot live without. They are primary sources of communication to reach you like account notifications, what accounts you've registered with it and vice versa.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Mailo.com. It's ugly as 2005 websites but it just works. You get IMAP, family accounts. It's just email. Old and reliable french company.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    it may not be "beautiful" by what passes as "modern design" but i think it's great, just the way it is. it's the modern full page "responsive" scroll til you die shit designed for small screens that suck ass.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (2 children)

    First time I've seen Mailo recommended, thanks for sharing. Does it support custom domains? And have you had any issues making accounts using a Mailo address?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    No issues. I only use custom domains for years to be independent and they support it. Also they have nice ways for kids accounts with moderation of what's getting into your kid inbox.

    Except of shit web design that i don't use, all works just fine. IMAP, caldav and so on. I'm super happy.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago

    I did a pretty deep dive for my company recently. We are very data-privacy centric. Here was my Lemmy post on it: https://lemmy.world/post/51963153

    Some of the items there are mentioned here, but after the evaluation, my hunch was correct and we are likely switching to https://runbox.com/

    Good service, pricing, privacy focused but not so much that you need to host your own proxy like with Proton, and runs sustainably.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Here's Lemmy's reply from yesterday triggered by the same concern:

    https://lemmy.world/post/53735981

    Gmail was actually the easiest one to separate from, if you just count the transferring email addresses. It is a pain in the ass because so many services fight like hell to hold onto your google account you sometimes have to jump through hoops to remove it--a security risk in itself.

    The big sticking point for me so far is photos... there are other options, but itś all integrated into my phone in weird ways I don't want to bother with right now.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    GMail is not that easy. Because, there are places and services that use e-mail clients that are easy to be sent to and received by GMail. I've experienced this with ProtonMail for a while, where there'll be services and individuals that could not reach me through my Proton e-mail and I've had difficulty reaching out to them.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    I moved over to Tuta personally for email. And Tuta is EU-based if that matters to you. If you use other Proton features there are alternatives there as well.

    For Proton Pass and Authenticator, there's Bitwarden (and self-hosted Vaultwarden). Which supports password storage, 2FA codes, and Passkeys across basically all devices. Also supports SSH agent forwarding if you work with that a lot.

    For Proton Drive, Koofr seems to be a good option for cloud storage, also EU-hosted. They also have an additional locally-encrypted Vault for files you want additional security on. Things like 2FA bypass codes you get when you set up your accounts but don't want want hanging around in the open at all.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    mailfence is pretty good so far. very basic but there are nice clients for IMAP these days

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    i can't get mail from some places to mailfence. sending is fine. no errors with the connection. no bounces. senders have looked at their logs, they're fine. mail is sent. it is received. mailfence just loses it somewhere before it makes it to my inbox and they won't help with anything at all. so i gave up with them.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Depending what you need and want, I can highly recommend posteo.de and while they are not as polished and use standard DAV, it works absolutely flawless, they are relatively cheap, based in German and have certifications for all kinds of security.

    If you want something like Google Workplace, get a Nextcloud. Still not as polished, but open and if you want to change the provider, you can just do so. I recommend a combination of Nextcloud and Posteo.

    And if you need a custom domain with everything bundled together, I can recommend xaweho.de. though they are not cheap...

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago

    You are right. He will try again one day in some shape or form. But it‘s still nice to see a backlash with cancellations can make a difference. Teaches us that we should keep trying to change things for the better or stop changes that make things worse for us.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I'll continue to use ProtonMail myself. But, I can't in good conscience feel in reason to support this company with my money and I'm especially concerned with relying on ProtonVPN so that will be getting uninstalled.

    This is just not how you win people over and I'm tired of this day and age in tech where companies like this, pad their PR up with promises then do a 180 on their attitude towards everyone who uses their products that makes everyone second guess them. It's bad enough we have things like Discord who has spent a couple years, making themselves look good and cozy for the public market that have alienated its userbase.

    Bluesky showing their true colors and then we have this asshole CEO on Proton taking a dump whenever he pleases on the values of why we bothered using Proton in the first place.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 week ago

    iVPN is a good alternative. What concerns me is his disregard for proper security review of AI generated code, because that is one of the stupidest things a company focused on security and privacy can do. Even if one has no issue with his previous remarks about Trump, this new one is legitimately a security issue that affects the product itself.

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