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Proton calendar desktop5/15/2023 ![]() ![]() Sure, why not, except that I don’t care about any of those things: I want to mail stuff. ![]() ProtonMail became Proton’s Mail-get it? It’s now suddenly expanded into a corporate suite of privacy-focused productivity tools, supposedly wanting to compete head-on with Google’s Suite. Then there was the big 2022 redesign, oh boy. As Ruben Schade points out, desktop mails serve a purpose, and I want to get rid of reading mails inside my browser, preferably without the bridge. In 2021, that app was slow and buggy at best, so I relied on the web UI instead. If you want to use mail clients such as Apple’s Mail, MS Outlook or Thunderbird, you have to install a “ProtonBridge” first, otherwise the clients won’t understand the mail header and contents. Then there’s ProtonMail’s awkward way of handling encryption: since e-mail can’t do it, they have proprietary software on top of the protocol to handle that. In short, I found myself mailing to addresses, to people who don’t care about encryption, and to people who don’t know what it is. In reality, I also converse with non-tech folks through e-mail, which have no knowledge on how to encrypt their mail, even with software addons such as PGP, that should make life easier. Exchange of (PGP or otherwise) encryption keys is something for the cool kids that I only dabbled with twice because a friend and I were figuring out stuff. The e-mail protocol is unencrypted by design, meaning if you’re concerned with your privacy, you shouldn’t use e-mail at all. Except that as the months and years progressed, I never made any use of them. ![]() I originally landed on ProtonMail as the de facto privacy-focused mail provider where end-to-end encryption, encryption-at-rest, and all that public/private key good stuff matters most. More than a few reasons made me finally look past my yearly subscription there: in this post, I’ll give a brief overview. Until today, when I switched to Germany-based. Since January 2021-for exactly two years-after ditching Google’s products, I relied on the Swiss ProtonMail service to send and receive mails from my own domain. ![]()
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