Agree. I'll pay for an email service provided by Mozilla.
Right now my only options are Gmail or running my own. I just don't trust other email providers.
And, yes, I've looked at Fastmail, Zoho, Protonmail and others.
Right now my only options are Gmail or running my own. I just don't trust other email providers.
And, yes, I've looked at Fastmail, Zoho, Protonmail and others.
Curious about the thought process that made you arrive to this conclusion.
Emails have a lot of information about my life.
I know what Google is doing with my emails, and as far as I can see Google is not going to die or be purchased by another entity.
With companies like Protonmail and others I just don't know. Even if I trust their current T&C, what happens if they are bought.
Also, while it is equally likely for Google to have rogue employees, I believe they will have more stringent safeguards then smaller companies.
Again, as I said, probably not a very good answer, but more gut driven. And, I say this as someone who is very conscious of privacy.
Not going to happen overnight and even then technically they cannot access your emails because only you hold the password to private keys (if you trust they encrypt your emails with your public key before storing). I prefer keeping my emails local so pop does the job.
Google can access your emails but something like protonmail can't (if you trust them to encrypt your emails).
https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient
It is main reason to use ProtonMail over Gmail.
Posteo is also running on green energy and free software, afaik, so that is a plus.
I like also that it is no problem to use in countries which block VPN, like China. I had no problems accessing Posteo, but no way of accessing Gmail. It also does not nag me every single time I change the VPN server I use, because I seem to be in a different location. I know this is supposed to be a security feature of Gmail, but man is it annoying not to be able to access your mail, because of that. In Posteo you can also activate 2FA afaik, if you like such thing.
It just works, and I am glad to be able to give support to free software, while at the same time I also gain from it, by having an e-mail service, which is ethically way more acceptable than Gmail and is working very well.