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What's a good alternative to Proton? (piefed.social)
submitted 3 days ago by bowsertattoo@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Proton is seeming sketchier lately. What alternatives do y'all have in your back pocket? Especially for email, but really any part of the suite.

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[–] moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 4 points 3 days ago

The decryption needs to happen client side, so that doesn't work with these browser based email providers, unless they add support for it.

Also, proton has a public facing endpoint where you can enter the email address of any of their clients, and it will give you their public pgp key. Literally every proton account has one, even if the owner doesn't know it. That allows me to send encrypted emails to every proton user encrypted, and it "just works"

With other email providers, I first have to ask the user for them to send me their public key. And >90% of the time, they don't know wtf I'm talking about.

That's why proton is the best (unfortunately). We need an alternative that "just works" like this.