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Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
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this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2025
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I've only heard bad stuff about Proton recently.
Email was really a very insecure protocol to begin with. There is an encrypton thing for It but It's a pain in the ass to setup.
Yeah using GnuPG blows.
And the only people of which I have keys, I can also just write with on Signal.
Like what? People have recommended it to me but maybe I should go with another option
The last thing I witnessed is them leaving Mastodon in shame after promoting the republican party.
Before that a couple of incidents where they gave law enforcement information on activists.
Idk if it's actually a crypto ag situation.
I guess none of this actually makes them a worse choice than Google.
At least one of the law enforcement events was that they provided the recovery email address linked to the Proton account, which is not encrypted information and they were legally forced to give, then the authorities used that to get access to the other email account and bust them.
As far as I know, nobody has ever had their Proton emails accessed.
The CEO is a bit of a liberal/libertarian tech bro who sucks up to whoever they feel would be best for their business, including Republicans. And Proton itself does stuff like operating a VPN out of Hong Kong to promote "democracy" and whatever.
They have actually complied to over 10000 requests by authorities in 2024. I don't get the impression they do all that much to fight those requests.