Have people noticed how much popretary java code ProtonMail requires when using a web browser for email?
Also, why the required login on their free VPN service if they are all about privacy and encryption? Why do they want someone’s network traffic in order to use their free VPN?
Over the past 6 months my suspicion grows bigger and bigger of who is behind Proton, the agenda behind starting the service, and how it caught on? Why don’t free encrypted anti-government services catch on?
Until ProtonVPN removes login requirement and release VPN server code under open source license like RiseupVPN or CalyxVPN which are anonymous VPN’s, no account, I will choose to treat Proton like a spy agency.
Oh! another lavabit victim in the wild. I signed up with em because i just wanted basic security and privacy for a new email account and then poof gone. To top it off, my next email provider had some issues and i lost that account too :(
Now I’m about ready to rant a post about how we don’t actually control our own email accounts and therefor don’t control our lemmy accounts. I’m a big boy and can handle passwords and account control myself without a guarantor!
I am aware about bots and fake account stuff and see the need for better verification, but email is not a valid way to do it.
I miss Lavabit because of how light it ran for an ecrypted service. When I tried Proton it seems more bloated, has too much code and dependencies.
The only way to control your emails is buy a domain and run your own physical server that you maintain the software running on mail server, as in self hosting.
I don’t remember a whole lot about lavabit other than how rough it was to lose access.
I’d consider my own email service, but most places that have problems with user accounts will consider a self hosted domain as invalid. :(
Lavabit was smooth, I was using email all the time, but that was before messenging. Lavabit was more text and not so much icons and graphics, it was a well run system. The webmail did not have as many options and services as ProtonMail.
Such a well oiled machine, I still miss using Lavabit email service, 10 years later