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?


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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.

  • DoctorWhookah@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I literally purchased 12 months of Proton VPN last night and this is one of the first posts I see today. Glad this is an old post and happy to see new positive responses.

    • R...@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      My experiences in these two years have been nothing but positive, so (as far as i know) a good choice to go with their VPN service! :)