Has it been two years already?! Well that’s quite some time!
In short, with the steps Proton has taken in the past two years to improve their products, i am a very happy customer! Currently i am using Proton mail and Proton calendar. For a VPN i use Mullvad at the moment and i can really recommend them for a VPN service.
Regarding the VPN, i had been using Mullvad before Proton started offering theirs. Currently i am weighing of if i should use Proton for my VPN services as well, or keep some things separated between different companies, just in case.
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I'm trying to get rid of my Google dependency and one of those steps was moving over to Protonmail. Now in the past few days i have been picking up signals that even Protonmail is not as clean as it might be.
Does this really impact the privacy of how i use email and so is moving to Protonmail a step forward from Google, or is Protonmail just as bad?
If so, what could be alternatives?
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edit:
Some of the alternatives being mentioned in the comments are:
Email:
- [Tutanota](https://tutanota.com/)
- [CTemplar](https://ctemplar.com/)
- [Disroot](https://disroot.org/en/services/email)
- [Riseup Email](https://riseup.net/en/email)
VPN:
- [Mullvad](https://mullvad.net/en/)
- [Riseup VPN](https://riseup.net/en/vpn)
edit 2 (2023):
There seems to be some new activity around this post. At the time of writing the post (2 years ago) there were some stories going as user @UnfortunateShort described in their comment. This made me question the best options available at that moment.
Currently i am still a Proton user, using their Mail and Calendar service, and Mullvad for VPN.
Agreed! :)