Survey shows users are ready to ditch Gmail for this ultra-private email service
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Most of you said you’d switch to Proton Mail for the privacy, even if it meant giving up some of the convenience of Gmail.

Most of you said you’d switch to Proton Mail for the privacy, even if it meant giving up some of the convenience of Gmail.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    7 days ago

    And this is exactly why I use ProtonMail. My old Gmail is now a junk folder I check…about never. It was actually much easier to switch over providers than I expected. I basically would just switch one over every time I logged into it. Everything else got to keep the junkmail account. :)

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      93·
      7 days ago

      I was about to pivot to the proton-sphere, and then their leadership and the company in general got all… fascist-appeasing. It put me off.

          • letsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
            13·
            7 days ago

            Yeah but you’re going to be forever going “tango uniform tango alpha” to everyone on the phone. At least people know how to spell gmail.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1815·
    7 days ago

    there are probably providers out there that deliver this.

    would not recommend proton though. the ceo is a fascist, and not to be trusted anymore.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      157·
      7 days ago

      CEO claims are valid and if people don’t want to support company because of that is fine. But please don’t spread false information about their producs not being trustworthy anymore. Their products have independent audits to show that you can trust their claims and it’s not just empty words.

      • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
        713·
        7 days ago

        praising a fascist is hardly what id call valid for any reason, but everyone is entitled to their opinion i guess.

    • sudneo@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      6 days ago

      That tweet doesn’t remotely make one a fascist.

      Also the control of the company is in the hands of a nonprofit with a very solid board.

    • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      7 days ago

      And thus is one of the issues. I watched for a long time as sooooooooooo many people urged going to proton. And now look.

      This is true for a lot of things. Are we just doomed to endlessly migrate to different emails, browsers, phones, etc?

      Gets fucking old and why I just don’t most of the time. Most hype about anything ever is bullshit.

      • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        honestly sticking with FOSS mostly solves all this.

        ive been using firefox for more than a decade now without problems. mozilla is certainly fumbling but the browser is still good enough imo.

        truly open phones would solve that problem for good, but any foss rom will get you covered and always has. anything goes as long as it can run lineage or similar.

        as with email or vpn services, i don’t think theres really a good medium term solution there since these services are run by third parties. those are always about trust. maybe selfhosting can be somewhat of a solution.

        its a capitalism problem more than anything, really, but most of it has stable workarounds.

  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Survey with nerds responding to AndroidAuthority shows a minimal unrespresenitive population SAY they would trade features.

    Follow up survey finds that few of them actually do switch when presented with the already current options to do so.

    Fixed that headline for ya.