I'm fucking done with Chrome. Fuck this.
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Proton encrypts the messages in your inbox, they can't read them, only you can. Google on the other side can look at all of your messages, as they have access to the encryption keys. Also, Proton is open source allowing you to verify everything yourself.
You can't encrypt your inbox, Google will always be able to read everything.
I switched from Gmail to Proton, trust me, it's not that much work. Especially with Easy Switch.
Yeah, but the (open source btw) Proton Mail Android app is totally fine.
Proton Mail also has a generous free plan
I know that, but I'm talking about the emails that are stored in your inbox, not incoming/outgoing messages.
I've been using Proton Mail since 2020 and so far I only used ~100MB.
Because it's impossible to offer IMAP when all the messages are encrypted. They would have to decrypt your messages on their servers in order to allow you to connect via IMAP. Proton Mail offers a workaround though, you can download their Proton Mail Bridge application on your computer, which will locally decrypt the messages and create a local IMAP server that you can connect to with your Email client of choice. That way, the unencrypted messages never leave your computer.
Uh, no. Where does Proton Mail inject ads? That's only something that Google would do. If you mean the signature, Apple has been doing the same thing for over a decade. It's not really ads though, it's just a short string of text saying 'Sent from Proton Mail'. It's added before the message is sent though, so you can just delete it. Apple does the same thing, if you send an email from an iPhone it will say 'Sent from my iPhone' in the Email signature.
Well, all of those issues would be solved by Proton Mail Plus for 3,50€/month ($4). For Gmail, you pay with your data.
@netchami @lud you can bypass no imap thing with electronmail, which is an unofficial protonmail app electron style.
Hydroxide is another option. It's basically the Proton Mail bridge, but it doesn't require the paid plan.
@netchami yeah, but isn't it broken rn?
Oh, I didn't know that. Last time I used hydroxide in 2021, now I just the the Proton Mail Bridge.
@netchami looks like hydroxide works for now, but you can view your email offline with electronmail as well
Ok, thanks. I've known about ElectronMail, but I never actually tried it. It also seems to support Tutanota?
@netchami I don't think it does. I don't see any options to add a tutanota account and tutanota has their own application anyway
Well, I found this article from 2020: https://itsfoss.com/electronmail/. It suggests that ElectronMail also supports Tutanota, but it might have been removed since then.
@netchami that might be the case, since tutanota has an appimage now
That's cool.