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Hi everyone! Since I was absolutely fucked by Skiff (thank fuck I didn’t pay for it) I’m looking for a new email provider :) I’m not sure I like how proton is transforming into a full on suit, I only need email. Any other recommendations or is proton my only choice really?

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[–] darkmatternoodlecow@programming.dev 52 points 2 years ago (21 children)

A provider having more than 50 users and offering more than one service doesn't make them evil. Use Proton. They are the best, and they're not likely to disappear. If you intentionally seek out small services because you think being an underdog is some sort of privacy merit badge, you'll get "absolutely fucked" over and over again.

Also, you should consider paying for the products you use to encourage sane and user-friendly business models. But that's a different discussion altogether.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz -4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

proton requires them to use their software and adds a footer with protonmail ads to all of your emails without an option to disable it without paying up

[–] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ads are harmless. The harmful things is JavaScript.

requires them to use their software

And their software doesn't even have an option to display HTML messages as it is plain text messages.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

by software i mean the imap bridge, but i agree that the official client is pretty bad too

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