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.
you write as if you’re correcting me (first comment began with “no”, second citing what i already stated) but i said nothing in contradiction - already encrypted emails won’t be unencrypted. i did not state otherwise.
It doesn’t say that, it says:
This means only e-mails received after the the monitoring declared by the court was approved which are not encrypted will be sent to them. This is reinforced by the following sentence:
Meaning they can’t do anything with old, encrypted e-mails.
Meaning new encrypted e-mails.
i understood but i now see i wasn’t clear enough in my original comment. sometimes i omit things for sake of clarity but it seems i omitted too much in this case. it was not my intention to imply that all incoming emails, regardless of encryption status, would be unencrypted.
No problem, it’s just I had this exact same discussion in a Privacy Tools issue and I was sure I knew what I was talking about, also I don’t to say X service has been compromised.