To add to the discussion we had some month ago, where some people said the planned laws would never come to be and would never be a threat: proton decided to differ and to move parts of the infrastructure to other countries.
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Surveillance-Proton-relocates-parts-of-its-infrastructure-from-Switzerland-10538664.html
It seems they take privacy serious, that is a good thing.
Also not a fan of their whole Trump thing, but if our whole plan is to pressure consumers to only buy from “good cooperations” we might as well just give up. That is a “US-liberal” form of protest, and utterly ineffective. Use what is easy, cheap and offers the protection you need and spend your energy on building something worthwhile.
It irks me a little when someone asks where they should move to from gmail and the responses bash proton because the ceo made a shit take on twitter, like cmon. Some people really wanna be the enemy of good
The whole Trump thing is extremely embellished by some idiotic zealots who only want a PERFECTLY PURE product from PERFECTLY PURE and ideological exactly matching persons.
Still not a law…
Yet enough fuzz to influence company decisions.
I’m losing track of who the good guys are. The most unethical e-mail companies involved in military or facisms in my view (and I’m no expert) are:
- Microsoft
Gray area would be Proton until I find out what material advantage - if any / their Trump-supporting member provides to fascism in the U.S. and beyond.
Better options as I see them (again, I’m not an expert):
- Tuta Mail
- Posteo
There’s a good breakdown of ethical option here: https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/technology/shopping-guide/ethical-email-providers
Proton isn’t perfect but it’s worlds better than gmail. I’m content with using their free tier, but not convinced to pay for their expensive plans.
Here’s another breakdown: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/
I got Mail plus with a discount, it’s their only service I really use anyway. Don’t think I actually made use of it. Registered some aliasses since I could, but don’t use them so +1 from me.
The discount is only for one year isn’t it? You’re gonna pay full price after that
Yes, if my discounted year would end today I would not renew it. Back then I thought I might want to upgrade to the full plan after a year but now I’ve come to think it might be better to get these services from a bunch of different companies instead of one all-inclusive package. Maybe I’ll takr the effort and switch to Tuta mail. Or maybe I’ll just downgrade back to the free plan. Not sure yet.
Love my mailbox.org
