KeePass can do TOTP, it's better to have a separate database for those for obvious reasons, though.

Just a question, is there anything wrong with just KeePass?

Fastmail while an excellent product, is in a jurisdiction with "dubious" rules. I would give Tuta a second chance. Infomaniak is also a good alternative.

So, guys, I’ve had a pretty great experience with GMail, from a small company… they index the Internet, whatever that means. Anyway, the sign up is free and and I don’t have to bring a domain… again, not sure what that means, but it sounds nice.

First time I’ve seen AliasVault. The built-in email server to create aliases and receive email is cool. No need to use a separate service. Can anyone who uses AliasVault share your experience? I know it’s FOSS. I can’t find any info if they’ve been independently audited. If it’s great, I’ll switch from Bitwarden.

Great list! Thanks for compiling this. AliasVault looks promising.

What are the suggested alternatives to Proton Drive?

Something that keeps being missed in these posts that I would recommend is Forward Email and NymVPN. For self-hosted email, I have also seen Stalwart recommended.

I wouldn't trust a proprietary VPN, so I'd remove Xeovo. As someone else mentioned, Obscura uses Mullvad servers as the exit node. Not recommending Mullvad is fine and I'd do it too, but then recommending Obscura is weird.

Fastmail is in Australia. correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the Australian government basically backdoor every product hosted in their country? wouldn't that be terrible for privacy?

I recently made a post asking for email providers, and no one has yet mentioned Mailfence, I hadn't heard of it until seeing this post. What are people's thoughts on it?

i had enough struggle to convince my friends to switch away from google, im sure as hell not getting them to switch again. especially not when i am the one paying for the family subscription

I do love Posteo, but they explicitly do not support custom domains, as said in their FAQ. However, it is very strongly anti-AI, and has strong ethics that I think anyone in your situation would agree with.

For VPNs, I love AirVPN a lot, though I hear it can be rather slow. For me, I personally use it for downloading Linux ISOs as well as getting past wonky internet connections and it works really well for those use cases. From what I could see, Xeovo also seems to be torrent-friendly as well.

I've recommended Aegis to close family and have used KeePass (as well as XC and ChiPass, which is an AI-free fork of XC) in both a personal and professional capacity. I will have a look at AliasVault though, as I would like to move away from BitWarden myself.

Yubikey -> Nitrokey

I don’t see Mozilla Thundermail making any of these lists, so if there are concerns, this is the place to say why. It’s still beta, but I got my invitation only 2 days after asking, so I’d say it’s viable in that regard.

What ever happened to Tuta mail? Is that bad?

Anybody know what the deal is for encrypted mail between mailbox.org and proton?

I'm looking to shift my proton over to mailbox. But I have lots of friends on proton, mostly b/c I recommended them to! And realistically, I am not gonna convince them all to move again. Some have onyl been on proton a few months.

I think proton-to-proton email is E2EE. I'm wondering if various others like mailbox that use pgp under the covers, cooperate to pgp between themselves too. Am I losing anything, if my friends stay on proton and I move to mailbox?

Email server to server might be TLS-ed most of the time anymore. But that's not E2E.

Idk about Obscura VPN personally. Made a post about it here: https://lemmy.ml/post/53749507

Edit: I also find it weird that you include Obscura when you didn't include Mullvad because Obscura is built on Mullvad lol. It uses Mullvad servers.

Tuta enjoyer here. Shame you don't include them.

I like Infomaniak, IVPN, and Bitwarden

Why are you using the GOP logo? This isn't an American-centric issue.

Just put a Swastika. That's what he apparently stands for now.

what about tutamail, could that be an option for email?

Please remove Mailfence from the list.

I am using them, they are great, you can use your own domain, alias, webcal, with document space too, and cheap...

Please, I want it to stay smol and good.

Not all publicity is good publicity I've learnt...

@inlandempire@jlai.lu , I think you may be inadvertently making a mistake excluding mullvad and bitwarden.

Mullvad is an excellent vpn service that provides unparalleled security, privacy and anonymity. If security, anonymity or privacy could have an effect on your safety then consider weighing that safety against your concerns about its founders political donations.

I currently have active subscriptions to mullvad, windscribe, proton, ivpn and airvpn. If I had to go down to one it would be mullvad, if I had to go down to two I’d add air for piracy.

Windscribe is the one I won’t be renewing. It’s complex, confusing, frankly expensive for what you get, has an awful app and config file generator, constantly seems to radiate incompetence and I think their style in general is cringey.

Proton is what you’re leaving and to be honest I’m probably gonna replace it with Nord. It’s “fine” but I can’t effectively automate its use on headless systems so it’s gotta go.

Ivpn is pretty good with a couple of caveats: it’s still possible to screw up and make an account with pii that the company can be forced to divulge, there are many examples of this vector causing people problems with other services. The company has not faced the same scrutiny as mullvad, however that’s a very high bar. What truly is a dealbreaker is how few servers & locations ivpn has and how not great the speeds are.

Airvpn is a piracy service. Theres no two ways about it and it’s great for that. I wouldnt bet my life on it but it sure does allow port forwarding at a decent price!

Mullvad in comparison is simple, reasonably priced, has plenty of servers and locations with good speed, has the best vpn apps I’ve seen, you literally can’t make an account that’s not anonymous and has gassed the most intense possible scrutiny I know of for a vpn.

If your life or freedom depends on it, you should pick mullvad.

Many companies with some tie to politics I disagree with produce extremely high quality products and services that I rely on. It is particularly hard to avoid in the gun market but is certainly present in security as well.

Of course if the vpn is for getting past the company firewall so you can look at pornography on company WiFi or something, feel free to disregard this.

I brought up bitwarden but I’m tired of tippa tapping out a post so just imagine an equally long description of how it’s good and the problems always seem to turn out to be overblown.