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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (1 children)

It's not dumb shit, nowadays if you create a company like that you need to rely on someone else's servers, so your word of keeping your data safe means nothing. At least if they don't keep their word with their own servers, they'd be going down on their own.

Also, the question "does anybody use their service" sounds very naive of what's going on in the world, a lot of people uses Protonmail, it's probably the first choice of people wanting to avoid big companies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

The term cloud is commonly used for hosting on external data centers accessable via the internet for convenience. I can't see how having your mail hosted by protonmail is any different, they are "a cloud". With "does anybody user their services" I wanted to know about people on lemmy, I guess the proper word would be "someone".

it’s probably the first choice of people wanting to avoid big companies.

They have their own data centers so they can't really be that small. Also there are multiple thousands of e-mail hosting providers.