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AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail

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Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail

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AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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My Gmail just turned 20 years old, AITA for kicking it out and moving in with Proton Mail?
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    Has really everyone fogotten that you can use tools like GPG? What fucked up timeline is this?

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      Honest question: how many email-havers do you think know what GPG is?

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        If they don’t know what GPG is then why are they using Proton?

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          …what? How is that related at all?

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            Gretty Pood Grivacy

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              GNU Privacy Guard

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            Technically, Proton uses PGP under the hood to send emails between Proton accounts. You really don’t need to know that to use the service though.

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      GPG has a chicken and egg problem. I have mine publicized on Ubuntu’s key server, which is likely one of the bigger ones (but iirc it is of little relevance as it syncs with other keyservers). Out of the emails I am sent only one of my contacts bothers with encryption. Which is sad, but what can you do? The web mail interfaces rarely if ever support GPG, and even if they do sharing your key with them defeats the purpose.

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