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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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what E-Mail provider do you use and why (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm currently still using gmail unfortunately

Cock.li (airmail.cc)looks very nice but it is invite only

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I use Protonmail as they offer quite a bit of privacy, offer lots of features, and are free. I particularly like that they protect from tracking pixels notifying the sender you read their email.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Proton gang checking in. So much so that I pay them 😊 (actually needed paid features)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Same. Proton gang.

I have plenty to criticize about their lack of creature comforts, but alas.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah.... I love proton but their android app also needs work. They'll get there!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, the Android app is total garbage.

I don't know if it'll ever "get there" because they've not demonstrated that they're putting in any effort at all. It's currently on version 3.0.16. According to ApkMirror, they released 3.0.1 in June of 2022. So that's over a year of "stability improvements and bug fixes". Meanwhile they launched Proton Pass, Proton captcha, desktop clients for Drive, introducing new plans, etc.

Honestly, I just want threaded conversations on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They released the rewrite as a beta apk at the weekend for testers. So it's definitely going somewhere.

It's faster and has conversations on the app too.

https://proton.me/support/mail-android-beta

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/16veha9/join_the_new_proton_mail_beta_on_android/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Indeed, same here but while using my own domain name, this way if some day, for whatever reason, either they go "bad" or I find "better" I can switch without much worry.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Protonmail and SimpleLogin has been a great combo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't support email clients in the free tier tho, so not exactly "free".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then pay for it if that's a feature you want. They make a product, and want to get paid for it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I meant that with the free tier lacking such a basic and necessary feature, you cannot really say the service is "free".