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Seeing Proton get heat on social media for their marketing again so lets repost this. Treat these email services for what they are: Alternatives to Gmail or Outlook with a security perspective and automated encryption features.

Yes, people on social media can't read, but IMO they should approach their service in a different way ("A reasonably secure email provider" is my suggestion) If they don't want people ratioing them all the time... Most of these people getting the wrong answer is because their site can be pretty ambiguous about the technical details without searching a few pages deep for it. Posteo is an email provider that does openly clarify they can be compelled to intercept incoming emails in a better way than how Proton says it.

Still doesn't mean these services are a bad thing though.

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Mynymbox - Privacy friendly hosting solutions · 12w
Most of the the posts and hate on social media is just pure stupidity. Copy pasta and 99% have no clue what they are reposting
Brunswick · 6w
No matter now secure your email encryption is, the email server is still the central weak point. The metadata (header information) is never encrypted, and we know the metadata is far more valuable than the message content. If you know who talked to whom and when, that's about all you need to know wh...