Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service : technology

[–] taanegl 1 points 10 months ago

Like if proton was a VPS kind of thingy, even like some form of managed mail service through a docker container or something, where the user had control? That would be nice. But even then, who's to say they aren't monitoring the mail communication from the other end of that? You can't really trust any of these mail providers, because they simply have too much control over the days.

[–] MisterFrog 1 points 10 months ago

Is there a solid alternative that isn't as prohibitively expensive as Proton? It's like, stupid expensive, even for basic email service with very small storage

[+] [email protected] -14 points 10 months ago

No sh*t.

But, TBF, email as a system doesn't need ProtonMail too to be kinda private.

PGP, mixmasters, all those things born around the same time as me.

That's if we lived in a world where "key party" weren't perceived as related to sex.

[+] erranto -18 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Unlike proton mail , microsoft offers basic IMAP POP functionality of its desktop app for free, Maybe proton should offer the same "essential" email functionality for free before criticizing Microsoft. there are many ways to monetize a service without rendering the free version legless.

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[+] rabiddolphin -18 points 10 months ago (18 children)

Email is outdated. I hate that it's required for anything, no one uses it for anything other than a high speed fax machine for boring business communique

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You mean, other than being the most widespread method of account identification on the internet?

You need to have a method of uniquely identifying (and verifying) accounts and the other widespread method (phone numbers) is extremely privacy invasive because it's much harde or practically impossible to change phone number for most people.

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[+] [email protected] -19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised that the developer of a privacy-focused product would accuse its competitor of not being good for privacy.

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[+] [email protected] -55 points 10 months ago (11 children)

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