If not, what alternatives can i use?

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    162·
    11 days ago

    Swiss have one of the strongest privacy laws and Proton is pretty save to use.

        • bonus_crab@lemmy.world
          11·
          10 days ago

          I just dont think soapboxing on the internet really accomplishes anything. Donald Trump is an fascist cunt but if he can be tricked into doing something decent by some brown nosing then sure.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
    2·
    10 days ago

    1. You shouldn’t “trust” as a basis for security or privacy. Eg for protonmail, Proton can still read your incoming emails if they arrive unencrypted; the only way to avoid that is to send E2EE email, which unfortunately most email is not. You should assume that if they can, then they are.

    2. If you have to use proton for whatever reason (can’t afford to pay to self-host things, don’t know how to and don’t have time to learn, etc), it’s perfectly fine for everyday use for things that are not particularly sensitive ie you don’t have a highly resourced state actor actively trying to obtain that data. Just always keep the first thing in mind. Too many people treat anything that calls itself “encrypted” as a silver bullet.

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
      32·
      11 days ago

      All Proton apps and services are OpenSource.

      This article is somewhat biased, yes, they handled out an IP of an to the authorities, this is mandatory for every service in a criminal investigation if there is an court order present, they must give the data which they have about the user, even Lemmy must do it if there is an court order about an user. Any service in the web must fullfit the laws of the country in which it’s operating. This has nothing to do with privacy or trust about the service, also not if it is OpenSource or Proprietary. A service also can’t avoid that it is used by republicans in the US, or that one of the employees is a right winger. The CEO of the Brave Browser (FOSS) as example. Can Lemmy avoid that an Nazi use it in a own instance?

  • pahulf@lemmy.world
    22·
    11 days ago

    I think they are trustworthy and the sexy alternative to Gmail. I’ve been testing both Proton and Tuta as my replacement. Proton is more expensive, but provides more services. Tuta is smaller, cheaper and gives off a user centric vibe. Proton seems to be emulating bigtech a bit too much with their release of a privacy chatbot today. I’m personally leaning towards keeping Tuta over Proton.