I've been using Proton Mail and VPN for a while now, and I'm just wondering how everyone else feels about them. I have this kind of inherent alight distrust of them just because they seem like they offer a lot for free and kind of have a Big Tech vibe about them, but there's nothing for me to really substantiate that distrust with, its mostly just a feeling. That being said, I do use their services as mentioned and they work pretty well, even on the free teir. So aside from that one instance where they gave that guy's info to the feds, is there any reason not to trust them with my data?

  • Joseph Finger@freiburg.social
    51·
    1 year ago

    https://piped.video/watch?v=iH626CXyNtE

    1. Dont use webmail, the purpose of a browser is to execute foreign code of unnown sources -> they can serve you any website they would like
    2. dont use Email, it's all plain text on the servers (unless you insist on using pgp, yet still a lot of metadata is plain text)
    3. dont use centralised communication ie. Signal. You're creating societal habits that wont be easily changeable if you start to distrust them. Matrix and IRC etc. dont need a phone either