What I read online seemed to say that Proton Bridge is required, and is not free. That sucks, if so…
I’ve only ever read that their external mailservers are only accessible by paying customers.
Yeah… forget it, then. PurchaseWithPurpose.io seems to have some better email providers…
Proton bridge is required for external apps and only with paid accounts
Remember if you’re not paying you’re the product
… except in FOSS! 😍 You are absolutely not the product nor paying with Syncthing, etc.
Unless/until it’s acquired like audacity or simplemobiletools (which tbf was forked into fossify without the ad garbage). Then there’s just the poor decisions of major projects like Firefox. Even Ubuntu like a decade ago had a brief period where it served amazon ads and integrated with facebook/twitter for user data sharing, though they quickly walked that back because users were furious
Sure, but the general principle is that it’s easier to find goodness in FOSS than badness. Like you said with the forks, life, uh, finds a way; I use Firefox forks Waterfox and Floorp. I use Linux Mint, a cleaned Ubuntu derivative. How many for-profit equivalents are better? What is the percentage? Consider all FOSS offline games, for example. There is true heart in this stuff.
I ageee that foss is the way to go generally, my point is more don’t blindly trust foss to be altruistic. A devs gotta eat and sometimes that (foolishly) becomes engagement with the ad machine monster (especially given donations are often overlooked)
Oh. Yes, fully agreed! And even the benevolent can still get hacked by malicious forces…
