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So Protonmail / ProtonVPN is not a good option? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm trying to get rid of my Google dependency and one of those steps was moving over to Protonmail. Now in the past few days i have been picking up signals that even Protonmail is not as clean as it might be.

Does this really impact the privacy of how i use email and so is moving to Protonmail a step forward from Google, or is Protonmail just as bad?

If so, what could be alternatives?

edit:

Some of the alternatives being mentioned in the comments are:

Email:

VPN:

edit 2 (2023):

There seems to be some new activity around this post. At the time of writing the post (2 years ago) there were some stories going as user @UnfortunateShort described in their comment. This made me question the best options available at that moment. Currently i am still a Proton user, using their Mail and Calendar service, and Mullvad for VPN.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (2 children)

Taiwan later criticised the government of trying to strong arm the citizens with the bill and withdrew their extradition request.

Proton's support of the what the riots turned into isn't tainted by what sparked the controversy in my opinion.

I'd agree with you that it's about wanting to continue to exploit without consequence, though I'd say were talking about different parties doing to exploiting.

Link for those interested in a news recap: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50148577

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

Taiwan withdrew the extradition request of the murderer of a pregnant woman for the sake of politics? That's messed up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

edited: the first part of my comment was irrelevant to the true matter at hand so it has been removed

Proton’s support of the what the riots turned into isn’t tainted by what sparked the controversy in my opinion.

and in my opinion, this actually makes it worse. because then it becomes them promoting a blatant misrepresentation of hong kong in support of a color revolution. this means those deciding to fundraise are openly supporting the interests of the US government. which makes them less trustworthy, not more.

the argument could be made that they saw how many westerners ate up the propaganda around the situation and wanted to capitalize on it. i think that is a fair argument. but them being money-hungry makes them less trustworthy, not more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

I'd much prefer you to source your claims especially when refuting others, we simply don't agree on this matter (though I do like reading a different side of things) - I appreiciate the discussion though all the same!