I think I know the answer, bit maybe I’m missing something

Since proton only sends and receives encrypted emails to other proton accounts, that means that when you get or send an email to someone else, they have to send / receive unencrypted and there is no way for us to verify what they are doing. Right?

Also if most accounts are google Microsoft, they still get 90% of my emails. By switching to proton I think I’ve gained nothing, while losing convenience , added another trust point, and having two different companies have my data instead of just one

Proton drive, calendar and VPN I think are fine

Sorry for the poor syntax. I’m at work working on email related things, and this topic kept distracting me. I might correct it later

  • suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    a transactional SMTP provider, which is almost certainly selling all outgoing email contents for AI training at least if not even more nefarious things.

    That’s a big assumption, and that kind of behavior is specifically prohibited in the privacy policy of most, if not all SMTP relay providers, as well as GDPR regulations. If you think they’re violating their own privacy policy and government regulations and doing it anyway, there’s no reason to think Proton isn’t as well, or any other email provider, so that’s kind of a non-starter argument IMO. Plus this only applies to outgoing emails, not incoming. I don’t know about you, but I send about 5-10 outgoing emails a year, there’s not much to be gleaned there. Incoming is what you’d want to protect more than anything.