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Honestly, bring on the down votes but Proton is a massive, massive improvement over google. Bring your own domain into it and then you can switch providers at a later time hassle free if they do something annoying enough to warrant the switch.
Ive seen the hate, I agree; fuck the CEO, but compared to google it is wildly the better the better choice
Are you aware that Andy Yen is forcing a massive AI coding adoption? Proton may be better now but I doubt if will continue to be anything close to stable or secure within a year.
Yes, I am fully up to date. As a lemmy user, I'm not sure how its possible to not be lol. My advise is advise that can be flexible. thats my current setup. If proton stops being what I want or expect, I'll bounce. Ive spent the past few months setting up to make that easier, but with a family fully on the plan, its not as simple as just swapping things over...
Also, as someone in the software world, there a a massive difference between the CEO understanding of how AI is used and how engineering uses it....
What exactly do you mean by "bring your own domain into it". How does this work?
Look for an email provider that supports an email address with custom domains. Then you buy a domain of your choosing (can be as little as $5 for the year). e.g. if I get the domain www.craziman.co.uk, then I can take that to my mail provider and my email can be edgelord@craziman.co.uk. Or make it a catch all address.... So any email sent to @craziman.co.uk gets sent to my inbox. So I can make up any alias I want. If I sign up for an account I can input my email as insurance@craziman.co.uk. then in the future if I get marketing emails sent to this address then I k ow who sold my personal information and I can easily block all emails to insurance@craziman.co.uk
https://proton.me/support/custom-domain You buy a domain, use that for your proton email address with the above, then if you switch to something else thats not proton, yoymu just deregister it and bring it with you to the next one. No changing logins, no changing email addresses with everything. Just a smooth port.