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There are many major actors, both corporate and governmental, that don’t like privacy enhancing services like ProtonMail. No conspiracy theory, just large actors acting ruthlessly in their own self interest.

This year old article is a bit bogus though. As other pointed out, the hit on SEO came from changing from .ch to .com

ProtonMail, and other similar services, deserve to be supported in my opinion. I have recommended ProtonMail to friends and family. I use them out of personal choice, and I also rely on Fastmail.

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Is ProtonMail still free? If so, I dislike that greatly.

I switched to FastMail a while back and while reviewing options, I wanted to use ProtonMail.. but a free option seems far too unreliable for something as important as email. I need to know how they're paying the bills, basically. I prefer their incentives to be perfectly inline with mine, because I am paying their bills for my portion of usage.

They offer both free and paid accounts.

Protonmail's terms of service are better than Fastmail', IMHO. Fastmail TOS says that your service can be terminated anytime whatsoever on the whims of fastmail, whereas from what I remember, protonmail's TOS atleast laid out conditions under which your service could be terminated, like doing something illegal.

https://protonmail.com/pricing

They have several tiers, including a free tier. The free tier is pretty limited; I wonder what percentage of their userbase stays there.

I think you could spell it out more clearly that the various three-letter agencies in the USA are quite interested in suppressing information about getting-popular systems that thwart their snooping.

This year old article is a bit bogus though. As other pointed out, the hit on SEO came from changing from .ch to .com

Could you point to a source for this? I'm curious, because the article says:

"After that public exchange, ProtonMail was apparently informed within a few days that Google had 'fixed something' — and after that it was able to see immediately positive results"

Switching to a different domain shouldn't _delist_ a site from Google's SERPs as long as the switch is done properly...

> Switching to a different domain shouldn't _delist_ a site from Google's SERPs as long as the switch is done properly...

Is there any reason to believe ProtonMail did the switch properly? Maybe Google's fix was just to manually correct for ProtonMail botching the switch?

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