Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton’s trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.

  • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    48·
    10 days ago

    I’ve been giving them the benefit of the doubt, but I’m kinda done with them. Anyone have any suggestions for a mail provider? I’m not yet willing to self-host that.

        • ShotDonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          Yes, for a reason. You have to register with a name and an address to obtain/buy a custom domain at a third party. Your identity could be traced back via this. This is against their very strict and consistent ‘zero knowledge’ policy.

          • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
            1·
            4 days ago

            Hmm I don’t agree. You can always sign up using a foreign mail provider with a domain privacy service.

              • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
                2·
                3 days ago
                1. I register a domain using a service in a country outside of the EU (since Posteo is German).
                2. I also apply a “privacy protection” service, which means my data won’t be visible in the public whois (the domain will be officially registered by the privacy service that I use).
                3. I sign up to Posteo and configure my third-party domain.

                This means Posteo doesn’t know anything about me, and even if the police raids Posteo they can’t find who I am.

                Of course they could, in theory, find out who I am, but that means going to the provider that I used to sign up for my domain, which may be on the other side of the planet outside of German police jurisdiction.

                • ShotDonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  10 hours ago

                  Thanks 🙏, but what you describe is a theoretical option, right? Posteo doesn’t offer to integrate such a custom domain afaik - but please correct me if I’m wrong! Do you use Posteo with a custom domain?

    • tibi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      While not exactly privacy focused, I’ve been using zoho for a while. Really happy with it. I distrust most of the ones that sell privacy as their main thing, because email is not designed to be private.

    • azalty@jlai.luEnglish
      1·
      10 days ago

      It’s sad, I really like their UI

      If you’re afraid of self-hosting, https://mailcow.email/ is pretty great and easy to setup for that if you want to go to this adventure, else, Tuta would be their main competitor but I don’t really like their UI