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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?


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Some of the alternatives being mentioned in the comments are:

Email:

VPN:

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[–] rowdyrockets@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One thing you left out is that Proton petitioned against this law after this happened. They successfully had the law changed so this can’t happen again.

I’d also like to clarify that no logs existed of this court ordered mailbox. It wasn’t until after the court order that logging began. So their claims are true - there is no logging. But yes, they can start logging whenever. So could every ‘no logs’ company.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Very true, thanks for the remark 👍