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      • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I think yours is the first comment I’ve read that has Proton hesitancy. I’m curious what your reservations are.

        • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
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          3 months ago

          I actually don’t know what people’s hesitancy is, but I’ve seen numerous people say proton is not good, we’ll see if anybody chimes in with a reason.

          • Bakersfield@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            The email service says it was unable to appeal a Swiss court’s demand to log the IP address of a French climate advocate.

            This weekend, news broke that the anonymous email service ProtonMail turned over a French climate activist’s IP address and browser fingerprint to Swiss authorities. The move seemed to contradict the company’s own privacy-focused policies, which as recently as last week stated, “By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account.”

            Edit: formatting

          • forgotaboutlaye@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            I’ve seen doubt of it’s push to pack products into it’s offering ala Google - however I don’t see that as enough to call it not good.

            It’s also very easy (and suspicious imo) for anyone to call a service not good without any reason to back it up.

            • ElegantBiscuit@lemm.eeEnglish
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              3 months ago

              I see that as offering services that people clearly use and value, and that the bills have to be paid somehow. So as long as proton can deliver the privacy and security features it promises, I personally don’t see anything wrong with providing an alternative when the only other options are built on monetizing your data.

          • vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            3 months ago

            I often figure it’s google bias and / or people trying to impose their threat models on other people.

            Been using proton for quite a while with a few custom domains and am impressed with the service to price of their offerings.

            We can one off use cases with any vendor, but at the end of the day, they offer a more secure out of the box experience than just about any other platform out there. If someone is doing illicit shit and gets popped, it’s not on the service provider to provide air cover for them. Improve your opsec or self host.

          • Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org
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            3 months ago

            The one and only critique I’ll give to Proton is how they have it where you can have Google e-mails forwarded to you to your Proton address.

            And it’s like…why? The entire reason you’re going to ProtonMail is to escape Google. Why the hell would you want Google to try and pry into your Proton usage when all you want is to distance yourself from them?

            • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
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              3 months ago

              You set up the forwarding in google, not proton. You mark the forwarded emails in your proton mailbox. You forward the emails to your proton account until you changed all the sources that you care about from your google to your proton mailbox. Then you turn off forwarding.

              Google never gets any more data from you except your protonmail address.

        • ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Not OP, I’ve heard criticism of their recent Duo subscription and their bitcoin wallet.

          I use Proton services and my biggest gripe is their mediocre Linux VPN app. No binaries to download/Flatpak, advertised port-forwarding isn’t fully implemented and requires playing around in a terminal, and UI feels less polished than it’s Windows counterpart.

          There’s a community made Flatpak of ProtonVPN though, in case it helps anyone