Doesn't surprise me, given recent Proton news.
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2026
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I had breifly heard that the CEO was pro-Trump when Trump was re-elected, so I had cancelled then and than searched out Canadian hosts that do not look through my mail. I was first with HostHero, because I could move my blog onto there servers they however charge an arm and a leg for unlimited emails with no wildcard option. I got tired of their angry support people when I was having issues so I went looking for a better solution and found easyDNS, who now hosts my domain, a VPS, and an email with a wildcard option.
Tuta is good too.
Nah, no encrypted email support outside tuta, so it's close to worthless
Oh? It says it's encrypted, what is encrypted email support outside of tuta may I ask?
They do have paid versions so idk.
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Do you remember how high it was? Last I checked a few days ago it was a little over 2k I think. I gave the benefit of the doubt about the Trump appointee comments but glad I took this last week to move things off Proton. Not sure about a VPN replacement and gonna pay a few months for any mail I didn't remember to move but otherwise I'm out and happy for it.
I realized I got in on the ThunderMail beta and moved my email over. What a relief!
Wow, they suck :( and I just renewed my subscription like a month ago. Are there any viable privacy-focused alternatives? I want encryption, custom domains, and the ability to import my old emails.
Welcome to the dictatorship of the Capital
So what is a good VPN alternative that also has decent performance? Where I live obfuscation methods are necessary and Proton's implementation of it seems to be the only reliable one where I am at. IVPN works but speeds are miserable unfortunately.
hey - can you tell me more about your setup and which servers you tested for speed & what are your expectations. we want to improve on this but conditions/location have a large effect on the outcome. all good if you want to keep all of this to yourself of course.
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sucks that i recently gave them the bitcoin i own as account credits