Mail just isn’t something that’s built in a way that it can be a private service. I think most people should choose a provider based on price and features.
Yes, it’s nice that if everyone you know uses proton then you can send end to end encrypted emails with zero friction. But I consider that more of a side feature rather than a reason to buy it.
Purely Mail is a nice provider in that regard. $10 a year!
I do like FastMail a lot, though.
Proton mostly makes sense if you’re going to use the entire suite, which helps spread the cost and make it a good value.
>Mail just isn’t something that’s built in a way that it can be a private service.
No but theres a lot of daylight between "There might be intermediaries" and "The australian government can verbally request secret adjustments to this companies software"
I fail to see how that matters to the end consumer specifically in the context of an email product. It’s still ultimately a service dealing with plain text data that’s moving between providers in ways you can’t control very well to begin with.
100% of your email is read by someone else. You don’t send private information over email or store it in an email server.
Sure, I wouldn’t personally be buying an end to end encrypted drive service from an Australian company.
Again, a backdoor to data you’re already sending and receiving to basically random strangers on random servers who have an instant ability to forward that information along to anyone.
Yes, it’s nice that if everyone you know uses proton then you can send end to end encrypted emails with zero friction. But I consider that more of a side feature rather than a reason to buy it.
Purely Mail is a nice provider in that regard. $10 a year!
I do like FastMail a lot, though.
Proton mostly makes sense if you’re going to use the entire suite, which helps spread the cost and make it a good value.