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Yeah right, so much better to have your e-mails stored in clear text. With E2EE, I don’t give any fucks about local laws. My data stays my data.
That’s not entirely accurate. All metadata is encrypted, too, with the only exception of your IP. But there are ways to hide that, too, if necessary. So you only see the IP, date-time and how much data is transferred. But you will never see what was transferred or what is stored.
Doesn't proton's e2ee only work if you're emailing with another proton user?
Protons' copy is always encrypted. E2EE doesn't apply when the recipient is on an external mail server (unless you explicitly encrypt it with their public PGP key).
This still provides the major benefit of encrypting your email archive, and protection from data breach.
Or from Police forcing them to provide data. Because all they can provide is encrypted data.
I'm not well versed in encryption, can't they just decrypt them at will? When I use their webmail I just login, I don't provide any decryption pass
Yes you do, the data is encrypted with your password
In that case, even if they don't have your password right now, they just need to wait until you log in the next time.