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.
Isn’t the Protonmail client open source? https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge. Of course they could still read all your non-encrypted mails and you’d have to verify that you are receiving the correct client code every time you connect to the web client. But for the secrecy of your encrypted mails access to the client code should be sufficient, right?