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ProtonMail is headed up by a CEO willing to tow the MAGA line when expedient, and then retreat from it and claim it was misinterpreted when called out on it.
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
This is probably not the service you want to be using if you want to avoid the mad king in orange.
I mean the apps are open source no? ‘All Proton apps are open source and have been independently audited and verified by third-party experts. Anyone can see and verify that our apps do what we claim.’
Don’t chose American tech. Don’t choose European tech. Don’t choose Chinese tech.
The country/continent of origin is irrelevant. You’re still vulnerable to spyware either way.
Choose Open Source tech.
FOSS is the way to go wherever possible but hosting your own email is honesty absurd at this point. I know some people do it but for regular mortals it’s not remotely an option.
Absolutely. If you have an android phone, i’d always recommend ditching the google play store where possible and using F-Droid instead.
There is a whole community of people dedicated to the hobby of self-hosting. Email, Drive, VPN, you name it. Sounds like more effort than it’s worth, especially when companies like Proton exist.
*choose open source tech
Otherwise we’re just swapping corporate abusers for new ones.
Like Tuta.
I still remember how redditors on some european subs argued that we need “European alternative for Palantir”. Can’t make this up.
Dude, WHAT
Nationalism isn’t the unique privilege of America
Vivaldi is still Chrome under the hood
And Qwant is Bing.
I believe you are mistaken https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2023/09/18/web-indexing-where-is-qwants-independence/
Fuck, I stopped using Qwant years ago because of this! Thanks for sharing.
Wow, I was convinced of that too. I wish I remembered where I read that.
Yeah but it offers so much more control and features than vanilla Chrome and it does not ping back to the mothership.
Don’t listen to the haters, kids. Vivaldi rocks.
Its unrealistic for Vivaldi to implement their own engine, and gecko is noticably slower.
Email was never designed to be secure. It’s one of the most non-secure ways of communication possible. It heavily relies on trust, for example, nothing about email prevents you from forging who it is from, you can send an email from epstein@fbi.gov and it will arrive in a person’s mailbox just like that. Email also has no built-in encryption. The security of email thus has to be enforced by centralized parties, establishing their encryption standards and networks of trust. It’s just a problem with email itself. People should just abandon email for secure communication. If you really need to send something securely then send it over a Matrix server or something that guarantees end-to-end encryption and can be hosted by anyone.
You don’t technically need a centralized authority to encrypt email. You can do it at the client level and use some form of public key encryption. You will however have to manage your own private key, and recipients will have to be willing to actually use the system you devise. That’s always the hard part.
Everyone managing their own private key opens it up for man-in-the-middle attacks. That’s why certificate authorities exist.
GPG is not fucking hard. People just like being eaten by parasites. Like Proton. Tuta is Open Surce. Nobody has a fucking clue what Proton claims to be.
I really fucking hope that this Munich security conference isn’t our time’s “Munich Agreement”.
the only way you’re free from US/israeli spying is using chinese tech
If i have to chose a non-opensource solution, it would be chinese over anything else US made.
Just made this and your other post my Signal and WhatsApp story. Ironic, I know—both of those are American…
Perfect is the enemy of the good, you have to start somewhere!
That’s one of my favourite aphorisms! You’re very right.
That’s arguably the optimal place to share something like this, as you’re not “preaching to the choir”
