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.

  • verassol@lemmy.ml
    2·
    4 years ago

    thank you for the detailed comment. i didn’t see disroot being mentioned. do you have any comments on it?

    • Nevar@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 years ago

      My opinion on disroot is that any organization that has a business model run on donations is inherently unsustainable. If disroot became popular, they would no longer be able to host accounts for free. They may end up creating a subscription service after that but it creates uncertainty as to how and what they will do in the future. They might decide to fold. The same thing can be said for paid services but I wouldn’t use Disroot as my main email address if a few years from now the donations stop and they say they’re shutting down. IMO