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by pembrook 1275 days ago
Encrypted email just isn’t a thing. The minute you send a message to someone else it’s out in the wild.
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This. Get over it. Your email is not private or anonymous and never will be. Once you accept that, ProtonMail's value proposition is meaningless. ProtonMail must answer to subpoenas by handing over stored emails and IP addresses, just like everyone else. Here's one example:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...