I enjoyed the read. I'm a fastmail user and I didn't pick it for real privacy but because it's not Google. It's better than Gmail, more features, looks better, faster etc.

I don't know how any email provider can provide real privacy since they have to scan for spam, malware, and so on.

Fastmail is part of the 5 eyes surveillance network as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

can use any email provider other than G, just make sure you isolate email. For example, use personal stuff for mail 1, use work related to mail 2 and anything else to mail 3 or so.

Any idea how old that article is? Couldn't find a date but the mention of Windows 7 tells me it's not recent.

I still have my netscape.net address (AOL) and all the others (Yahoo, MS Live, Outlook). Also a second GMail address that was created/converted when TheBat service shutdown.

I use Thexyz and Purely Mail for normal use though.

Thought this comment he made was odd about Proton mail.

The site is filled by beautiful black screen without JavaScript enabled.

Like yes, its a bit difficult implementing local encryption or decryption without js enabled.

Has some good messaging, I'd say most of his comments are pretty widely known concerns or limitations.

Like obviously web apps still rely on trust from the host, but it minimizes the attack surface massively.

Hmm, looks like proton isn't too bad. Unless you are living in a cave using tor and bots you are tracked.

I wish alternative services like Proton weren't so expensive for their family plans.

Proton has been completely reworked recently and it’s now a quite good looking app/website.

Laugh all you like, I've had the same AOL email address since 1997 and haven't had problems with leaked information or spam. It doesn't cost me anything, so I'm just going to carry on using it.