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.

  • R...OP
    3·
    4 years ago

    Both those organisations have been around for quite some time right? Having their roots in activism as far as i know.

      • R...OP
        3·
        4 years ago

        The way you seems to use the word “activism” seems a bad sense I never knew. What do you mean?

        It was in no way meant as a bad thing, sorry if it came over that way.

          • R...OP
            2·
            4 years ago

            It did! Disroot has a huge mission statement where it is all written out, so that can’t be more clear than that. (i’ll also add them to the original posting as options for people in the future).