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Do you trust Proton? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by eddie_of_ny@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've been using Proton Mail and VPN for a while now, and I'm just wondering how everyone else feels about them. I have this kind of inherent alight distrust of them just because they seem like they offer a lot for free and kind of have a Big Tech vibe about them, but there's nothing for me to really substantiate that distrust with, its mostly just a feeling. That being said, I do use their services as mentioned and they work pretty well, even on the free teir. So aside from that one instance where they gave that guy's info to the feds, is there any reason not to trust them with my data?

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago

No, and I never will

[–] FarLine99@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I trust them. Yes, sometimes their marketing is unethical, but I think these are just miscalculations.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Ill get straight to the question: what should i use? I use proton currently but they are pretty sus.

[–] oij2@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fastmail looks nice in terms of features/cost - it is also owned by the people who run it, which is a big green flag.

But I am in the same boat, looking for a new service, haven't made a switch yet

[–] Kalcifer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

it is also owned by the people who run it

The ownership of a service, ideally, should make no difference to that service's trustworthiness.

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[–] artaxthehappyhorse@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would think if someone's up to some actual shady shit that they don't want to draw the attention of any authorities, they'd be better off using a combination of several of the most popular web mail accounts, like Gmail, and manually encrypting the message before pasting it in or something I dunno, just bc it seems like surveillance systems become less effective with more collection volume, and Gmail has a lot of users

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[–] hanabatake@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No.

Their email service is bad. Why do I need a proton software to use thunderbird ? Why don’t you use open standards for email ?

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