I’m trying to get rid of my Google dependency and one of those steps was moving over to Protonmail. Now in the past few days i have been picking up signals that even Protonmail is not as clean as it might be.

Does this really impact the privacy of how i use email and so is moving to Protonmail a step forward from Google, or is Protonmail just as bad?

If so, what could be alternatives?

edit:

Some of the alternatives being mentioned in the comments are:

Email:

VPN:

edit 2 (2023):

There seems to be some new activity around this post. At the time of writing the post (2 years ago) there were some stories going as user @UnfortunateShort described in their comment. This made me question the best options available at that moment. Currently i am still a Proton user, using their Mail and Calendar service, and Mullvad for VPN.

  • @avalos
    5•11 months ago

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    • @dengismceo
      4•3 years ago

      had to add some backdoors for an investigation warrant, so they could monitor a person involved in a blackmail case

      do you know where i can read up on this?

      edit: i read about it. it seems it is not an encryption backdoor but rather that they are intercepting new emails for one user before they get to the mailbox (because the emails in the mailbox are encrypted). here is a hackernews thread on it