That seems a little disingenuous. Just because email can't be protected well in most cases, doesn't mean you can't have a service that cares about privacy and does whatever is possible.

Google can train AI on your email, and then when I go make an alternative that doesn't do that, you will say I don't care about privacy? What is that, no true Scotsman? Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Even with all these issues, Proton is more private than Gmail.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 0 points 3 days ago

They provide a suite of services, most of which can be provided in a private manner. Blowing a hole in that by providing email seems counter productive. As I said, they could point you at a separate email service. Even if they provided that service it could ensure an adaquate break between the private services and and the non-private.

As a service, is it more privacy conscious than, say, Gmail? Yes, but you're still ultimately just asking the postman not to read your postcards.