I think I know the answer, bit maybe I’m missing something
Since proton only sends and receives encrypted emails to other proton accounts, that means that when you get or send an email to someone else, they have to send / receive unencrypted and there is no way for us to verify what they are doing. Right?
Also if most accounts are google Microsoft, they still get 90% of my emails. By switching to proton I think I’ve gained nothing, while losing convenience , added another trust point, and having two different companies have my data instead of just one
Proton drive, calendar and VPN I think are fine
Sorry for the poor syntax. I’m at work working on email related things, and this topic kept distracting me. I might correct it later
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I pay the amount of maybe 10 $ a year for having my own domain hosted at a mail-hotel, and that means I control my own e-mail. I think it’s worth it. There more who switch, the better.
Could you elaborate? What is an email hotel? I’m guessing you mean an email hosting.
just like a webhotel, just for mail instead… So yeah, like you can pay someone to host your website, you can pay someone to host your e-mails with your domain name…
That sounds like the worst option of all. At least I can trust google has some protections in place to stop employees from looking at you email, because if they didn’t there would be thousands of cases all the time.
In your case, you never know who is looking. At any point a rogue admin can issue a bank password reset and just read the email
I’ve never heard of the term web hotel before. I’m guessing its web hosting
Sounds like you don’t know what you are talking about. :-) That’s fine, but unless you know something about the topic, you shouldn’t really be judging…
I know exactly who is looking. And I would also know if anyone tampers with the passwords. I guess you don’t have the skills, and that’s fine. You might even think that there’s anything in the world that is totally secure. There’s not a single thing that is secure.
Oh, what is this? - https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/08/25/google-warns-most-gmail-users-must-change-passwords/
Good for you
Google literally opens all your email and scans the contents to build an ad profile on you. They scan all attachments too.
Of course. But you didn’t switch to a trustless provider. You switch to a nobody that has nothing to lose by reading you email. Also my point is that google has programs reading every email, but not people. They probably have a lot of locks to stop employees form accessing users email