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Proton replacement, your best suggestions! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by inlandempire@jlai.lu to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Edit: I made a mistake, I meant to add Mailfence instead of Fastmail, but forgot to update both the icon and text

Hey everyone, here's a follow up to my previous post, I tried to summarize all your suggestions and these are the options I have for the main Proton products I've been using.

I removed Bitwarden based on your feedback (basically they're enshittifying).

I'm not including Tuta, because I dislike their UX/UI, also they seem to not apply their LLM policy to their own devs.

I'm not including Mullvlad, because of one of the founder's donation to a far right political party in Sweden, said founder has a blog post to justify this, which links to another blog post where he claims to be a libertarian anarchist which is just another word for Ancaps which is a dealbreaker for me.

A lot of people recommended using one's own domain for email stuff, I forgot to mention I do have a custom domain, which will make migrating a lot easier indeed. Just need to update my accounts credentials.

Let me know what you think!

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[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i had enough struggle to convince my friends to switch away from google, im sure as hell not getting them to switch again. especially not when i am the one paying for the family subscription

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 day ago

I think it's fine. Proton is still better than big tech. I want to move away from Proton for myself but that's because I am not tied to an address (custom domain) and am happy to do the switch. I would still encourage Proton over big tech for regular people. We do the best we can do.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm confused... If you're the one paying for it, why do you need to convince them of anything? They can come along or pay for their own services.

[–] SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it was unfortunately worded. the reason they switched at all is because im paying. if i stop paxing they will just switch back

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

That's their prerogative.