I stopped using them because their Android app is absolute dog shit. But I would trust them more than Google.
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When Proton has a single app available on native F-Droid wirh zero anti-features, not from a different repository,conly then will I use their services. I don't use anything from them now. No Protonmail, no VPN, I don't use them.
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For some use cases, perhaps. I do trust them to keel over as soon as anything looking like an authority sends a request. I don't trust them to be as good as their marketing.
No news about scams or particularly evil policies yet, which is far better than many providers.
No, mainly because they're pumping out too many services. Also free VPNs just sound really sketchy to me.
Do you trust Proton?
For starters, such a question is coming at it from the wrong perspective. One should have trust in the software -- if such sowtware is, indeed, trustworthy -- and not in the entity that created it. If one seeks privacy, then they should be of the mindset that every entity is malevolent.
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Actually... this is the only internet privacy company that I trust. I just hope that they start to deliver new products and apps faster... especially on Android, so that we can de-Google our lives as much as possible.
No. I don't trust the Swiss. They're tied up with US intelligence and they'll do anything for money (that's why they're always neutral). I've gotten shit on here before for saying Protonmail might be a honeypot but I'm sticking by it.
Such a point is rather moot -- one should not be using email for any form of secure communications, as it is inherently insecure.
No, and I never will
more than google
Why is anyone using email anymore? (He said with a straight face)
Personally, email exists solely for merchant receipts, and IRS collection notices. I don't use email with any family or friends. Matrix, signal, session, most any messenger but I prefer e2e.
Maybe I'm internetting wrong.
My friend doesnt have a smartphone, so we comnunicate via email ^^
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I feel the same OP. There's no good reason for it but I just don't trust them. I have no idea why.
Ill get straight to the question: what should i use? I use proton currently but they are pretty sus.
Ill get straight to the question: what should i use?
Are you referring to email?
I thought it was obvious from the context but ues
In that case, the email provider that you use makes little difference at all. Because of the way that email works, it will always be visible in plain text (unless manually encrypted through PGP) by a third party other than the recipient at some point. There is of course the exception of, for example, direct communication happening between two Proton Mail accounts, but this is really hardly worth mentioning in any practical sense.
The long and short of it is that email should never be used for secure communications.
Skiff looks cool
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