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.

  • ghost_laptop
    1·
    4 years ago

    It doesn’t say that, it says:

    As Tutanota emphasized, the monitoring measure only affects newly incoming unencrypted emails.

    This means only e-mails received after the the monitoring declared by the court was approved which are not encrypted will be sent to them. This is reinforced by the following sentence:

    The company cannot decrypt data that is already encrypted,

    Meaning they can’t do anything with old, encrypted e-mails.

    as well as **end-to-end encrypted emails ** in Tutanota.

    Meaning new encrypted e-mails.

    • dengismceo
      1·
      4 years ago

      i understood but i now see i wasn’t clear enough in my original comment. sometimes i omit things for sake of clarity but it seems i omitted too much in this case. it was not my intention to imply that all incoming emails, regardless of encryption status, would be unencrypted.

      • ghost_laptop
        2·
        4 years ago

        No problem, it’s just I had this exact same discussion in a Privacy Tools issue and I was sure I knew what I was talking about, also I don’t to say X service has been compromised.